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...stand trial today for stealing a Chilean flag from the Harvard Coop building during Olympic soccer games here this summer...
Williamson said this week he will plead not guilty to the larceny charge, although his lawyer. Howard Friedman, said yesterday that Williamson was apprehended with a Chilean flag in hand. Cambridge Police Officer Thomas Tosi arrested the men in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28 after a passerby informed the Harvard Police Department (HUPD) of suspicious behavior by the men and HUPD notifies the Cambridge Police...
Williamson, who attended the Olympic soccer games, said he felt the flag's presence "legitimized a government where dozens are murdered every week," and that it was ironic he is to be tried on Chilean Independence Day, today, "for an act of solidarity with the people of Chile...
...development of a Chilean weapons industry is an indirect result of the arms embargo that the U.S. imposed on the South American nation in 1976. That was the same year that Chilean secret-police agents in Washington, D.C., murdered Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean Defense Minister whom the government of Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte disliked for his criticism of its human rights violations. When Chile almost went to war with Argentina in 1978 over ownership of three islands in the Beagle Channel, near the continent's southern tip, the Chilean government urged private industry to become involved in defense...
Iraqi military experts explain that they want the cluster bombs to defend themselves against the kind of human-wave assaults that Iran has tried in the past. They could also do considerable damage to the pipelines and loading equipment at Kharg Island and other Iranian oil terminals. The Chilean cluster bombs represent only a fraction of Iraq's huge arsenal, which consists mostly of weapons bought from the Soviet Union and France. But for Chile's budding arms industry the deal offers visibility, and perhaps field testing, in one of the bloodiest wars now under...