Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overseas increased from $1 billion in fiscal 1970 to $11.6 billion in 1974, but they dropped to $8.4 billion in fiscal 1976. With some hyperbole, Carter also dragged out all the skeletons in the Nixon and Ford administrations' closets-the invasion of Cambodia, the right-wing coup in Chile, the covert support of anti-Communists in Angola, and even...
...force reluctantly and only when necessary. But his private statements give a different impression--for example, "I wanted to bomb the daylights out of Hanoi, but Congress wouldn't let me." (The New York Times, 12/26/73). Or his justification of CIA efforts to instigate the military coup in Chile: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." (The New York Times, 9/11/74...
Most Harvard students would probably agree that Kissinger has adopted many policies that are wrong or even immoral, particularly in Vietnam and Chile. But at first glance his "shuttle diplomacy" looks less evil. In Africa or the Mideast he moves from country to country in what the press describes as an effort to avoid bloodshed, a goal that certainly no one would criticize. The bulk of the press coverage of Kissinger's recent moves in Southern Africa gives the impression that a plan for a peaceful transition to majority rule has been endangered by unreasonable black militants. Many people...
...Western interests" that Kissinger sees threatened by radical movements in South Africa are first and foremost Western business interests. In Chile and in Vietnam, it was blatantly obvious that Kissinger was more concerned with protecting U. S. capital than protecting democracy, more interested in defending profits than defending human rights. In spite of superficial differences, the same is true of his policies in Southern Africa...
...Chilean government quickly denied any connection with Letelier's murder. "The evil attack," said Santiago's pro-junta daily El Mercuric, would be "used to revive the campaign of hate and lies against Chile" at the United Nations General Assembly, which convened last week. But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated...