Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geisel's tentative liberalization policies may have been partly responsible for a decision last week of General Augusto Pinochet's Chilean junta to release 304 political prisoners held without charge since the 1973 coup...
...government over political imprisonment, torture and murder since the 1973 military putsch. Secret police have expelled two of the church's top civil rights lawyers, and still hold a third, though they have filed no charges against him. Two months ago, Cardinal Silva and leaders of the Chilean hierarchy issued a strong statement expressing alarm about "the fearful and all-powerful police state" that threatens to impose itself "without opposition in our Latin America." One priest noted ruefully that the theology of liberation used to mean "a man's right to participate in the running of a factory...
Separated. Leonard Bernstein, 58, America's fecund musical superstar; and Chilean-born Felicia Montealegre, 54, now appearing on Broadway in Poor Murderer; after 25 years of marriage, three children. It is a trial separation; no divorce plans have been announced...
...assertion that Friedman supports the Chilean Junta is a Goebbels-like big lie. Friedman gave a number of lectures in Santiago at the invitation of a private bank there. That doesn't make him a supporter of all the various and nefarious activities of the Junta. I gave a number of lectures in Moscow at the invitation of the USSR Academy of Sciences. I hope this doesn't convert me into a supporter of the Brezhnev regime...
...true that a number of the "Chicago boys" have been working for the Junta in various economic posts. It is also true that some "Chicago boys" are in exile and are not working for the Junta. (By the way, most of these Chilean economists were not direct students of Friedman, not that it matters.) The issue is not all that black and white. If you were a plumber in Franco Spain and were called to unstop plugged-up toilets in a political prison, would you refuse to do that because it would shore up the system? The moral issues...