Word: chileanizing
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...Sunday the King presided over an official public state funeral, which was attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, Jordan's King Hussein, and Monaco's Prince Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There...
...sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
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...