Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCloskey asked the audience of 80 to vote on whether Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D-Mass.) should be censured by Congress for revealing classified Central Intelligence Agency information about U.S. involvement in the 1974 overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende...
Thank you, TIME, for making the American public aware of the bloody repression that the Chilean government is practicing [Aug. 18]. I am but one of the thousands of relatives who are engaged in the painful search for a desaparecido [missing person]. The alleged corpse of my brother, Luis Guendelman Wisniak, not only had part of the coccyx bone−which in his case had been removed when he was five years old−but also its twisted denture bore no resemblance. The miraculously uncharred plastic identification card was ripped and sealed with metal staples, the last name was misspelled...
...which was soon surrounded by troops of the loyal Vencedores battalion. By 4 in the afternoon it was all over. The rebel troops surrendered, but in the confusion, Gonzalez−dressed in civilian clothes−somehow managed to walk out of the palace unnoticed and gain asylum in the Chilean embassy nearby...
...outside the country. Last month two mangled, bullet-ridden bodies were found in a burnt-out car in the Argentine town of Pilar, some 25 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Miraculously un-charred, however, were documents that enabled the Argentine police to identify the corpses as those of two Chilean students-Jaime Robotham Bravo, 24, and Luis Guendelman Wisniak, 26, neither of them very active politically. Also conveniently intact was a placard attached to the bodies that said the students had been "executed by the MIR," the Chilean revolutionary leftist movement. The Chilean press has quoted government officials as saying...
...those of the two students. The corpse identified as Robotham was that of a man nearly three inches shorter, and the alleged remains of Guendelman included part of a hip bone that his mother says had been removed in surgery several years ago. Both students were last seen in Chilean detention centers, and their families fear they died in Chile at the hands of DINA...