Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Swaggart, 51, the flashy Louisiana Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S. In recent years Swaggart has built a surprisingly large and significant following abroad, especially in Latin America. In January he packed the 80,000-seat National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. Last week he wound up a swing through the Central American nations of El Salvador and Costa Rica, and later this year will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Honduras...
While scanning some routine sky photographs at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile last week, Astronomer Ian Shelton felt a surge of excitement. In an exposure he had taken just hours before with one of the observatory's small telescopes was a bright spot that had not appeared in older pictures. Stepping out into the clear mountain air of the Chilean coastal range, the University of Toronto scientist reverted to a technique now used only rarely by professional stargazers: he looked up at the sky. There, in the fuzzy patch of light known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, was the spot...
With Fernandez facing a ten-year prison sentence as an accessory after the fact, the U.S. Ambassador to Chile requested the extradition of the other two secret-police officers. The Chilean Foreign Ministry is studying the case...
...Tufts doctor who went to Chile last month to investigate the recent arrest and imprisonment of Chilean physicians described her experiences in the South American country yesterday at a press conference at the Faculty Club...
...Chilean Medical Association and the Vicarate of Solidarity, the two Chilean organizations who invited Schaller to visit Chile, said the military government was attempting to silence the doctors who have been leading the two organizations for Civil Rights in Chile for the last decade...