Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Climaxing a torrent of anti-American speeches at the convention, she charged that "some powers that had tasted success in their destabilization game in Chile nurtured similar designs against India." In response to this implicit attack on U.S. policies, Washington officially expressed its "concern and dismay" to New Delhi. "Mrs. Gandhi genuinely believes that Indian society must be transformed," says one veteran diplomat in New Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million...
Britain last week recalled its Ambassador to Chile - for an unusual reason: Chilean maltreatment of a British citizen. The citizen was Sheila Cassidy, 37, a surgeon who worked at an emergency clinic in a working-class area of Santiago. Dr. Cassidy had been summoned by a Roman Catholic priest to treat a leftist political fugitive for gun shot wounds in October. She was arrested in November and finally released last week. Upon landing in London, she declared that after her arrest she was stripped by Chilean police, subjected to electric-shock torture and spent 2½ weeks in solitary confinement...
Cassidy. "No British government," he said, "can accept such uncivilized, brutal treatment of a British subject in the hands of a foreign government." At week's end Chile denied that Dr. Cassidy had been tortured...
...SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE on Intelligence set out to investigate "numerous allegations made about U.S. covert activity in Chile during 1970-73." In a report issued last week, the committee claims to have shown that allegations holding the U.S. largely responsible for the overthrow in 1973 of the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende are false, or at best half true. In fact, the Church Committee's conclusions themselves rest on a series of half-truths and omissions...
...American press to vindicate their ideological coverage of the events leading up to the 1973 coup. The Allende government was overthrown by American trained soldiers supplied with American money and weapons, suported by American-funded opposition press and strikers. That is only the covert side of American responsibility in Chile--the U.S. also destroyed the Chilean economy by organizing boycotts of its products, shutting off its international credit, and denying its industries essential spare parts. From start to finish the U.S. was the driving force behind the destruction of Chilean democracy, and its attempts to disguise this overwhelming truth makes...