Word: chile
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After a remote-control bomb killed Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier and an American aide as they drove through Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, U.S. officials charged that henchmen of Chile's then ruling General Augusto Pinochet had plotted the murders. Four men indicted for the slayings escaped capture or were untouchable in Chile...
...local policewoman identified Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking secret-police officers accused of masterminding the assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military aid to Chile...
According to Grindlay, such a project--built somewhere in Chile--would only take about four years to complete. With it, he says, the University could maintain remote computer links as well as an active presence there which would include graduate and undergraduate students...
...inviting a death squad president--a president with blood of the Salvadoran people on his hands--to speak here," said Margaret L. Lilienthal '88 of the rumor that Cristiani was supposed to appear at Harvard. "He is not a democrat or a moderate if he thinks Pinochet's Chile is a model of the perfect society...
Genero Arriagada Herrera, vice president of Chile's National Christian Democratic Party, sounded a lone note of political caution as he extolled the long struggle of the opposition forces that began the move to democracy in Chile...