Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William E. Colby, ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, defended the CIA's involvement in Chile and Vietnam last night before a crowd of over 300 at the Harvard Law School Forum and defined the current role of the CIA as intelligence-gathering rather than "spy and adventure...
...capital city had reached my ears this morning; and that a week ago, four tanks with rubber treads filed out of the barracks two blocks away headed for the center of Arequipa. No one talks politics at the party. As a university student who had been in Chile before, during, and after the Allende regime told me, "Politically Peru is 20 years behind Chile. Everyone minds his own business. The Peruvians are not a political people...
Protests against Milton Friedman, University of Chicago economist and this year's recipient of the Economics award, interrupted the ceremony. Demonstrators accused Friedman of supporting the right-wing military government in Chile, an accusation he disputes...
...ancient Americas are no longer considered mere artifacts of forgotten peoples but art forms that reflect the sophistication of complex civilization. The late Alan Lapiner chose to illustrate his book with outstanding examples of ritual tomb furnishings and gold and silver mummy ornaments from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil. The result is a trove for collectors and browsers alike...
There is, however, still some reason for optimism. Vance will be a softspoken Secretary of State--not a brash individualist in the style of Kissinger--and thus it appears that Carter intends to be his own man in foreign policy. Carter's campaign positions on Chile, on Southern Africa and on an open foreign policy, along with Vance's stated intention to work closely with Congress, may mean that the course of American foreign policy will take a progressive turn, the unfortunate symbolic significance of the Vance appointment notwithstanding...