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...icebergs. At day's end guests can relax at the health spa with a Thai massage or a dip in the outdoor Jacuzzi. At mealtime they gaze out at the Salto Chico waterfall as white-jacketed waiters bring plates of fresh salmon or Patagonian lamb and bottles of fine Chilean wine...
Making Augusto Pinochet Ugarte a member of Chile's Senate [NOTEBOOK, March 23] is a cheap price to pay for the future complete normalization of Chilean democracy. In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected President, not by the people but by the Senate. Allende was a Marxist-Leninist, but presumably he believed that democracy was the preferred means for political and social change. Still, under Allende, there were severe violations of human rights, and political dissidents were put in jail simply for speaking the truth. Very few have the moral right to judge the Chilean transition process, and some observers...
...everything had continued the way it was in Chile under Allende and there had been no Pinochet, we Chileans would have been the victims of a national educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
...death of Chilean leader Salvador Allende, the rise of the Sandanistas in Nicaragua, the future of Spain after Franco and the urgency of divestment from South Africa were recurring subjects of coverage...
Andrea G. Cid '01, whose parents are Chilean and Equadorian, said she thinks the dorms should remain open during the holidays to give those whose homes are far from Boston the option to remain on campus...