Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salvador Allende Gossens, a four-man military junta headed by Army General Augusta Pinochet Ugarte has ruthlessly eliminated leftists (real and suspect), suspended all political activity, and reversed many of the socialistic moves undertaken during Allende's presidency. But the junta is also beginning to find many of Chile's problems difficult and intractable. TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch reports...
...Chile is two countries today. There is the Chile you can see-the Chile in which newspapers touch on nothing more serious than garbage disposal -and the Chile that is both more shadowy and more real. In official Chile the streets are clean, the stores are full, and copper miners are working hard to boost production. In this Chile some government offices have signs saying, "Be brief. I have three years to make...
...gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
...Chilean military dictatorship told Edelstam to leave Chile for "exceeding his diplomatic duties and interfering in Chile's internal affairs." Edelstam spoke in Boston as part of a nationwide effort to revive interest in Chile and to stir up opposition to the continuing military dictatorship there...
Edelstam said that U.S. citizens, and students in particular, should create interest in Chile and the lack of human rights there...