Word: chile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Amnesty International, the Hillel's Committee on Oppressed Jewry, and Students Supporting Solidarity. In any event, if Harvard divested from companies that do business in South Africa they would, by the same gesture, divest of all of their stock in companies that are in the Soviet Union and Chile. They are the same companies...
...immoral for Harvard to invest in a nation whose regime is based upon so fundamentally wrong a premise as that of South Africa. That may very well be so. Yet, when asked why they do not also favor and agitate for divestment from other despicable regimes--the Soviet Union, Chile, etc.--the typical response is that divestment from South Africa is more attainable and holds out greater prospect for change than divestment from other regimes...
Against a background of growing official repression, at least 15 bombs exploded across Chile last week in a spasm of antigovernment violence that killed four people, including one police officer. In the capital of Santiago, four soldiers were wounded when gunmen opened fire on them from a passing car. A bomb blew a hole in the wall surrounding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Harry Barnes...
...Chile's dour 70-year-old dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, reacted harshly. Troops and police charged into an illegal May Day demonstration in Santiago, arresting 500 and injuring a dozen with rubber bullets. Security forces conducted sweeps in slum areas of the city, arresting a total of 11,000 men, who were hauled off to soccer fields and marked for police reference with indelible ink. If the unrest continues, Pinochet is likely to resort to a still tougher response: a state of siege of the kind that finally quelled similar unrest...
...raid was in fact a veiled execution attempt, it would pit the Reagan Administration against a specific presidential order and substantial legal precedent. In 1976, after public discontent over the revelations of cia assassination attempts in Chile, Guatemala and Iran, President Ford issued an Executive Order forbidding the Government from authorizing the assassination of world leaders. Both Presidents Carter and Reagan have reaffirmed that...