Word: chile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified with mines and trip-wired "scatter guns" in the 1970s. The communist leader's extradition was the result of months of arduous negotiations between Germany, Russia and Chile, and it finally came about after personal talks between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Chilean President Patricio Aylwin. The trial is unlikely to start until October at the earliest, but many fear it could prove politically messy, even stirring up unwanted memories of the Nuremberg trials. Meanwhile, newly discovered East...
...opening paragraphs set the tone of the article: "Peru? Where the hell is Peru? Well, it was first found by Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swinerherd. It's west of Brazil and north of Chile. First faltering democracy on your right. You can't miss it...It's a messy society...and the economy is a basket case..." The naive geographical description fails to do justice to the fourth largest Latin American nation, homeland of the Inca Empire, the most advanced civilization in pre-Hispanic America. In fact, most of the population takes its roots from the Incas, not the Spaniards...
Well, it was first found by Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd. It's west of Brazil and north of Chile. First faltering democracy on your right. You can't miss...
...have been the blindfolded woman's chief tormenter 15 years ago. Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss portrays her husband, a liberal politician who seeks to preserve the uneasy peace of the present even if it means suppressing the truth of the past. Although the setting is described as "probably" Chile, the play's polemics apply to a long, sad roster of other places where the price of newfound freedom is forceful forgetting. London critics have hailed a hard- edged production there as "grasping the pulse of the century...
...demands that the Shamir government stop building settlements in the occupied territories exchange for $10 billion in loan guarantees. The Wall Street Journal fueled the controversy by reporting that Israel is also suspected of having exported antitank missiles to South Africa as well as cluster bombs to Ethiopia and Chile...