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...have quickly found out that these terms apply only when the cause is a leftist one. "Freedom of speech" is a beautiful ideal, so long as this right is reserved for such groups as the New American Movement and prohibited for others such as the supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free...
...Chilean citizen, I was deeply offended and disturbed by James LeMoyne's editorial entitled "March 1972: Prelude to a Coup" (Crimson, December 4). First, there are several factual errors as well as unsupported generalizations. LeMoyne writes about Allende being killed and also says: "...the U.S. did all in its power to bring about conditions that would aid a coup...thereby insuring Allende's downfall and his death." Nowhere does the author mention that Allende actually committed suicide--ironically, with the gun he received as a gift from Fidel Castro--after refusing to surrender. The President was given several opportunities...
Judge John C. Geenty '55 again continued the case of seven students arrested in October's anti-Chilean Junta demonstrations at Boston University, at a probable cause hearing yesterday in Roxbury District Court...
...Center was hosting a conference in which former Chilean President Eduardo Frei and World Bank President Robert S. McNamara were scheduled to participate
...generation: the massacre at My Lai, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's wiretapping of his aides (Kissinger has called him "my nemesis"), Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, the Pentagon's pilfering of Kissinger's documents, the CIA's involvement in Chilean President Allende's downfall...