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When I entered this University in 1970, American bombers were carpeting Vietnam and Salvador Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangladesh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetery...
Freewheeling Style. The story is much the same in Latin America. From Rio, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cables that Carter's concern with human rights at first prompted the Chilean and Argentine regimes to grant dissenters a bit more leeway. But in the past week "Argentina barred those held under the state-of-siege regulations from leaving the country-an option they had before. In Chile, the official state of siege has been extended for six more months, and last week the Christian Democratic Party and three other political groups were outlawed...
...appointees caused another stir. At a meeting of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Brady Tyson, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation, publicly apologized for what he described as "the role some Government officials, agencies and private groups played in the subversion of the democratically elected Chilean government." Though Carter himself condemned the U.S. during the campaign for helping to overthrow "an elected government," he reprimanded Tyson for making an "inappropriate" remark...
...Administration's advocacy of human rights has not gone far enough. Statements on the issue from Carter and his top advisors have notably failed to mention American-supported foreign regimes which systematically violate the most basic human rights; the current Chilean junta, the Marcos government in the Philippines and the Vorster regime in South Africa are three notorious examples...
Among the delights she found was the screening room, where she had Walt Disney's Freaky Friday run off for herself and a schoolmate, Claudia Sanchez, the daughter of a Chilean Embassy cook. There was also bowling in the basement alley, a snowball fight with her mother and brothers outside the Oval Office and a fast new friend: Grits, a mongrel puppy that was given to her by her new teacher Verona Meeder. After spending his first night on the pink rug in Amy's second-floor bedroom along with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Grits...