Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been hurt by a drop in the world price of its chief export, copper, recently fell months behind in paying off the $1 billion it owes to U.S. private banks and has only lately caught up with the help of the International Monetary Fund. Other copper exporters, including Zambia, Chile and Peru, might seek extensions of their loans. Bankers emphasize that a stretchout of repayment schedules by no means implies that the loans will eventually go into default, but the banks will have to wait to get their money back...
Tense Face-off. Apart from the diplomatic confrontation between London and Santiago, the case of Dr. Cassidy highlighted one of the central dramas in Chile today: a tense face-off between church and state over the is sues of human rights and torture. In the months since the military coup that toppled Salvador Allende, the country's Christian leaders have emerged as the principal opposition to the repressive measures imposed by President Augusto Pinochet and his junta. As a result, priests, nuns and Christian laymen have become the objects of roundups by DINA, the dreaded Chilean secret police...
...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...
Cassidy providing convincing evidence that its work with political prisoners is far from over in Chile, the church announced that its mission would continue -this time under the official auspices of individual dioceses...
...Washington's Birthday editorial, The Crimson calls for "an end to repression and torture in Chile and Spain, and everywhere else, for that matter...