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...Three Chilean academics said yesterday they thought talks held earlier this week with President Bok and Dean Rosovsky on current academic repression in Chile were productive...
That was hardly what Chileans had voted for. Before last week's national "consultation," as the balloting was described in Chile, Pinochet had insisted that the vote had "nothing to do with internal politics." Instead, he claimed, it was a chance for Chile to send a message to the nation's international critics. Pinochet had ordered the referendum in December after passage of a U.N. General Assembly resolution that condemned Chilean authorities for "torture, disappearance of persons for political reasons, arbitrary arrest, [and] detention...
...SIGNIFICANCE of last week's Chilean plebiscite will deceive no one. Called by President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a means of discrediting critics in the United Nations and other international organizations that have repeatedly condemned the Pinochet regime for systematically violating human rights, the plebiscite was nothing more than an elaborate charade in which the formal trappings of democracy were used to justify its demise...
...Chilean Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet reports that his junta has received an overwhelming vote of confidence. Says the Generalissimo. "Once we discounted invalid ballots cast by communists, anarchists, rebels, homosexuals, and the criminally insane, the vote of confidence was unanimous." Two million Chileans cannot be reached for comment...
...nation last year, nearly three times as many as in 1970, and the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates merchants' losses from thefts in 1976 at some $8 billion. In the past eight weeks police in Hialeah, Fla., have arrested six members of a band of shoplifters called the Chilean Commandos, trained in Fagin-type schools in Valparaiso and Santiago. South American rings have been collecting booty worth between $150 million and $200 million a year in and around such major Hispanic centers as Miami, New York City and Los Angeles. But the problem of shoplifting is particularly severe...