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...DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean painter whose hallucinatory images of cosmic dream worlds made him a leading Surrealist artist; in Civitavecchia, near Tarquinia, Italy. Matta lik-ened his images to the experience of clasping one's eyes shut against the light...
Sponsored by Harvard’s Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the program offers opportunities to study in three Santiago universities in a wide variety of fields while living with Chilean families...
DIED. RICHARD HELMS, 89, former CIA director who presided over some of the agency's most controversial operations during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras; in Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned cigars. Domestically, Helms headed a legally dubious scheme to spy on anti--Vietnam War activists. Fired by President Nixon for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate break-in, he was later found guilty of covering up spy operations in Cuba and Chile to congressional investigators. The conviction...
...where the decor is Manila Hyatt 1984 but the traditional French fare is superb. A meal for two--succulent pigeon de Sologne, excellent fish and a youngish Chateauneuf-du-Pape--costs north of $300. East-West fusion is represented by the fashionable Uley, which serves rack of lamb and Chilean sea bass, but a mere pot of green tea there will set you back $20. Another chic place is Syr (Russian for cheese), whose decor suggests the inside of a Swiss cheese and which in spite of that has very good Italian food...
...some of the cold war's darkest secrets before being fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to embroil the agency in a Watergate cover-up; in Washington, D.C. Helms played a critical role in plotting the assassination attempts on foreign leaders (including Cuba's Fidel Castro) and overthrowing Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1971. Tall and dashingly good-looking, Helms mastered the art of spy craft at the wartime Office of Strategic Services before it became...