Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHILE. Just what the CIA did in Chile to oppose the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende after his election in 1970 is now one of the prime subjects before Senator Frank Church's special investigations committee. The Senators have information that former President Richard Nixon made it perfectly clear to the CIA that he wanted Allende out of power. Nixon is said to have authorized an initial expenditure of $10 million for the task and to have told the agency to "come up with some ideas...
Sudan Guatemala, Greece, Bolivia, Chana, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile... all these countries are now ruled by dictatorships imposed through CIA-supported coups. It makes one wonder who to blame...
...noon, when the ships came within range of a tracking station in Santiago, Chile, one of Apollo's four television cameras began sending pictures of the history-making rendezvous. Plainly visible outside Apollo's left window were the curved earth, one of the large finger-like petals of the docking module and, off in the distance, the winged Soyuz. After a few moments of maneuvering, Stafford nudged Apollo up against Soyuz so gently that there was barely a jolt as the three interlacing fingers on each ship locked together. Later at a briefing in Moscow...
...prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile, but the Kremlin has reason to be pleased about Communist gains in Italy and Portugal...
...apolitical organization. Groups never handle political prisoners from within their own country to ensure impartiality. "We are really serious about not letting political beliefs interfere with the handling of prisoners," she says White points with pride to the fact that Amnesty has been alternately attacked as left-wing by Chile and right-wing by the Soviet Union. "Amnesty does not want to be identified with anything but the observance of human rights," she explains. "We are not trying to change the political structures of countries, but only the way they treat their political prisoners...