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...THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the destruction of Chilean democracy and socialism approaches, we are violently reminded of the fact by the brutal assassinations last week in Washington of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to Washington and foreign minister under Allende, and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, a teacher and staff member of the Institute for Policy Studies, where Letelier also worked. The assassinations mark an important point in U.S. relations with the Third World. For the first time ever, a major leader of a Third World resistance movement has been murdered in the United States. For the first time in living memory, assassins...
Three explanations have been advanced as to the agents and motives behind the assassinations. The first maintains that Letelier, as a representative of the more moderate, "non-revolutionary" section of the Unidad Popular, was killed by the more extreme left elements of the Chilean resistance. While indeed a mathematical possibility, this argument depends on three questionable assumptions: first, that the wing of the Chilean resistance has achieved a level of technical competence in explosives far beyond any previously ascribed to it; second, that there is an active enmity between the two elements of the Chilean resistance, rather than the amicable...
Letelier was killed last week when a bomb exploded in his car in Washington, D.C. He was in exile and the Chilean government had recently revoked his citizenship...
...Chilean refugee programs are struggling by comparison with programs for refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Parvey said. Those programs benefited from massive government involvement and publicity while the Chilean programs are "just being done from the heart" by a few Jewish and Christian congregations...
...picked up by their torturer-interrogators. The prisoner is usually hooded or blindfolded. Sessions often begin quietly; physical torture starts only after the interrogator has built himself up to a feigned or genuine anger, which Andrew Blane of Amnesty International calls "an emotional state of furious self-righteousness." Some Chilean prisoners have reported torturers calling a prisoner to an interrogation session with the phrase "It's time to go to work." In Iran, where, as in many other countries, women are routinely raped during torture sessions, Reza Baraheni once watched a 13-year-old female prisoner calmly introduce her interrogator...