Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guillermo Hernan Herrera Manriquez was arrested by DINA, Chile's dread secret police, near Santiago's central railroad station. Herrera was detained briefly and then was taken to his father's home; along with the rest of his family, he was placed under house arrest. The next day Herrera was allowed to speak to his wife, who reported that he had been badly beaten and his ears, mouth and genitals subjected to electric shock. Herrera was permitted no medical attention by his DINA guards. Two days later, his father heard noises from the room where...
...Herrera incident, which a Santiago lawyer active in human rights cases swears is true, symbolizes a grim fact about life in Chile today: the torture stories that were the hallmark of the military junta's first year still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now than immediately after the coup, and summary shootings have stopped, but terror has become institutionalized. It operates in the hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation...
...support for Gen. Pinochet's junta in Chile shows that Ford refuses to learn this lesson. Portugal provides still another example of the will of the people, in the form of a revolution ending 45 years of Fascism, over-coming the will of a few in power. Programs of nationalization are a welcome step toward economic equality, and we support Portugal's progress toward democratic socialism...
...Caramanlis to end the home-port arrangement for the Sixth Fleet at Eleusis and to close an American air base. By tempering Greek associations with NATO he strengthened his domestic standing, as the U.S. is unpopular in Greece. Kissinger is despised for his support of repressive regimes in Greece. Chile, Vietnam, Cyprus...and Vice President Rockefeller is ridiculed, at least since his foolish slur in response to a serious question. When asked how he would feel if he were Greek and Turkey used U.S. supplied weapons against him, he answered...
...bring American war criminals to justice, but in the meantime he emphasizes the continuing work of the non-governmental tribunals established by the Russell Foundation. "The idea of the popular tribunal is not dead," he says. "It's a continuing vehicle used to show what's going on in Chile and with the Kennedy assassinations. It's a tactic for dramatizing evidence of official crimes...