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When war broke out between Iraq and Iran in 1980, Carlos Cardoen, a small- ^ scale Chilean arms manufacturer, was quick off the mark: he flew to Baghdad in search of a deal. Because he had no contacts in the Iraqi government, "nobody would even see me," he recalls. "So I just left my brochures and went home...
...knows the shrewd and innovative Chilean entrepreneur, however, expects the loss of the Iraqi account to set him back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate...
...Chilean's latest venture has alarmed his country's neighbors. He admits that he is experimenting with fuel-air explosive bombs, which release and then detonate a vapor cloud of fuel. The F.A.E. has been called the "poor man's atom bomb" because of the powerful explosion it generates. After it became known that Cardoen had helped arrange an F.A.E. test in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile three months ago, protesters in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina charged that Chile's production of such a terrifying weapon could set off a regional arms race...
...just a year ago, at age 65, after decades of unhappy marriage and raising four sons. In all, an estimated 1.5 million U.S. lesbians are mothers. Most bore their children while married, though adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school graduate in Manhattan, has a son Erick, 8, from her former marriage, whom she is now raising with her lover, Marie Tatro, 29, a law student. Both women attend parent-teacher conferences; both support the child financially; they tell his playmates that they are both "Erick...
After a remote-control bomb killed Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier and an American aide as they drove through Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, U.S. officials charged that henchmen of Chile's then ruling General Augusto Pinochet had plotted the murders. Four men indicted for the slayings escaped capture or were untouchable in Chile...