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...Among other things, the latest documents show that General Pinochet may have had a hand in the 1976 car bomb attack that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffit, in Washington. U.S. intelligence was aware that the general, long considered one of Washington's key allies in the region, had contacted Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner in the summer of that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack...
...latest batch of documents also contains evidence of U.S. intelligence agencies' gathering information about U.S. citizen Frank Teruggi (including his Chilean address), who was later detained at his home by Pinochet's security forces, taken to Santiago's National Stadium and summarily executed. But such individual instances point to a broader pattern of support for efforts to overthrow an elected leftist government - President Nixon tells a National Security Council meeting in 1972 that "we must do everything we can to bring down Allende." And previously released documents point to U.S. government efforts to support the Pinochet junta despite mounting congressional...
...President Clinton ordered the review in order to shed greater light on the U.S. role in Chilean democracy's darkest period, and the picture that emerges is far from pretty. But while there are unlikely to be any political recriminations in the U.S. at this point - notwithstanding the fact that former president George Bush was CIA director for some of the years under consideration - the latest documents may be bad news for General Pinochet. Chile's high court has stripped away the immunity he awarded himself as the price for relinquishing power, and only last week courts ordered...
...Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, rate a student's personal statement. That first impression can color the whole discussion. The committee, for example, issued a swift rejection to a student whose essay was riddled with typos. After reading a moving tale of how a student bonded with a Chilean immigrant struggling to educate his children, assistant dean Debbie DeVeaux went to bat for the applicant: "I love this guy. I hope you love him as much...
...Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, rate a student's personal statement. That first impression can color the whole discussion. The committee, for example, issued a swift rejection to a student whose essay was riddled with typos. After reading a moving tale of how one student bonded with a Chilean immigrant struggling to educate his children, assistant dean Debbie DeVeaux went to bat for the applicant: "I love this guy. I hope you love him as much...