Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived openly in Bavaria until 1951, when pressure to bring him to justice forced his retreat to the havens of Argentina and Paraguay. Only when Israeli agents came hunting did he flee to the cover of a German settlement in the Paraguayan jungle. Presumably he is still there, drinking Chilean Riesling and reminiscing about the Third Reich...
...last year, is a natural-resources and gas-pipeline firm, with interests ranging from chemicals to shipbuilding. Anaconda mines and processes copper, aluminum and other metals and manufactures a wide range of industrial materials. Recently the firm has been buffeted by reverses, including the 1971 expropriation of its huge Chilean copper holdings, falling copper prices and a slump in demand for Anaconda's products. Result: a $39.8 million loss in 1975 on revenues of $1.09 billion...
...citizens were truly represented, for example, when Moynihan authored a resolution calling for worldwide amnesty for all political prisoners. Unfortunately the third world's benevolent despots, the stability of their own regimes depending on the incarceration of the opposition, killed it. Or when the credentials committee charged that the Chilean delegation represented a military dictatorship, and not the Chilean people, Moynihan added, "We have here a list of 45 military governments and 35 others installed by military coup. Let's look into them all." The committee responded by voting to drop the matter...
...military coup that toppled Salvador Allende, the country's Christian leaders have emerged as the principal opposition to the repressive measures imposed by President Augusto Pinochet and his junta. As a result, priests, nuns and Christian laymen have become the objects of roundups by DINA, the dreaded Chilean secret police...
...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...