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...protest was not the first of its kind. In May, Chileans engaged in similar demonstrations that left two dead and 150 injured. But last week's outbreak was far bigger and confirmed a growing, broad-based impatience with Pinochet. The demonstrators demanded an end to Chile's worsening economic crisis: inflation is running at about 35%, unemployment is at 21.9%, and real income has dropped 27% in the past two years. More significantly, the protesters also demanded an end to Chile's five-year-old state of emergency and a speedy return to democracy...
Spearheaded by the activist 23,000-member Copper Workers Confederation, Chile's largest union, the protest movement has attracted support from a broad range of Chilean opinion: labor leaders, conservative and leftist politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will...
This format gives Percy broad license for commentary, the most trenchant presented in a theological framework. Painters and sculptors, for example, are the Roman Catholics of art, their tools and materials are sacramental objects. Writers are the Protestants, working alone in a bare room with only a pencil, "like God's finger touching Adam...
...Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Last week Belaúnde reluctantly cracked down. For the first time since his democratically elected government took power in 1980 after twelve years of military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although all but 14 were subsequently released. The harsh actions run counter to the government's efforts to promote democracy in Peru, but they reflect the seriousness...
...Margad means road or path in Sanskrit," explains Andrew S. Gilmour '83, one of the magazine's founders. "We thought it was a broad term for the comparative study of religion, allowing for different paths of salvation," he adds...