Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain last week recalled its Ambassador to Chile - for an unusual reason: Chilean maltreatment of a British citizen. The citizen was Sheila Cassidy, 37, a surgeon who worked at an emergency clinic in a working-class area of Santiago. Dr. Cassidy had been summoned by a Roman Catholic priest to treat a leftist political fugitive for gun shot wounds in October. She was arrested in November and finally released last week. Upon landing in London, she declared that after her arrest she was stripped by Chilean police, subjected to electric-shock torture and spent 2½ weeks in solitary confinement...
...enforce painful budget cuts, Wilson is popular with the faculty. He already had a run-in with leaders of the student government, however, after they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
Thus, while the Church Committee has not shown that the CIA was involved in the coup preparations, this does not prove that the agency was not coordinating the movements of funds and weapons between the U.S. and the Chilean opposition. Until all existing documents are examined and all involved government officials including Secretary Kissinger are forced to testify, the truth will not be established. The Church Committee should be forced to subpoena these documents and witnesses, and to take the issue to the courts, if necessary to secure them. Its current report is essentially a coverup, and the committee should...
...coverage of the events leading up to the 1973 coup. The Allende government was overthrown by American trained soldiers supplied with American money and weapons, suported by American-funded opposition press and strikers. That is only the covert side of American responsibility in Chile--the U.S. also destroyed the Chilean economy by organizing boycotts of its products, shutting off its international credit, and denying its industries essential spare parts. From start to finish the U.S. was the driving force behind the destruction of Chilean democracy, and its attempts to disguise this overwhelming truth makes the Church Committee report a travesty...
...amnesty in all countries, not just in such objects of Third World indignation as South Africa and Chile. But in order for the U.S. not to be accused of selective morality, its delegation first had to be able to vote with the U.N. majority in condemning Chilean human-rights violations. Chile is a sensitive subject for Kissinger; as National Security Adviser he participated in Nixon Administration decisions to undermine former President Salvador Allende. Approval for the U.S. delegation now to vote against Chile was delayed and delayed in Washington. On the last day, Kissinger was finally reached by phone while...