Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have found their victories elusive. In Vietnam, the cease-fire won by almost three decades of struggle proved to be little more than a scrap of paper, as the dictatorship of Nguyen Van Thieu continued to hold tens of thousands of political prisoners and to attack liberated territories. And Chile's military, frightened by Popular Unity's movement toward true socialization of wealth and its rights--within the framework of traditional law and with full respect for traditional civil liberties--violently overthrew Salvador Allende's peacefully elected government and established a reign of terror, bloodshed and repression that still continues...
...always borne their burdens, the working people of the world, that May Day stands for. This is year when it's easy to lose sight of that vision--when it's all most people can do to fight a different vision, one of rigid totalitarian control like those of Chile's new and Portugal's's overthrown dictatorship, like (on a much smaller, milder, and more hesitant scale) the illegal tactics President Nixon liked to avail himself of. May Day is especially important this year, because it reminds is that we are after something more...
...greatly to ending Cuba's ten-year isolation from most of the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro has already agreed in principle to such a meeting...
...twin-engine Fairchild F227 chartered from the Uruguayan air force took off from Montevideo carrying an amateur rugby team and a planeload of friends and supporters to Santiago, Chile. Most never completed their journey. The plane slammed into a mountainside at an altitude of more than 11,000 ft. Of the 45 people on board, only 32, some critically injured, were alive the next morning...
...second Chile is the shadow country in which people who talk too much or ask too many questions simply disappear. Santiago, once a lively capital, is curiously silent these days. Serious matters such as politics and high prices are never discussed on the telephone. Early this year a military patrol passing through a field near the capital asked a question of a campesino. The farmer touched his cap and answered, "Si, señor." He should have said, "Si, Señor Comandante." He was arrested for lack of respect to the army and, according to a lawyer familiar with...