Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the government should even care what a singing group's politics are is typical of its small-mindedness. And for the Parts embassy to assert at the last minute that the group's association with the Communist Youth Organization Party of Chile made the singers members of the Communist Party shows that the old Red Scare tactics are still thriving...
...Paris embassy officials knew for weeks that Quilapayun's members belonged to the Communist Youth Organization in Chile and were avid supporters of the Allende regime. But in a deliberate move to harass the group, the embassy waited until the last minute to declare them members of the Communist Party, necessitating State Department intervention before the group could enter the United States...
...case, I hope that we can forestall a repetition of some of the covert operations of the past. I take strong exception to the CIA'S undermining a government that had been freely elected by the Chilean people. This is contrary to our principle of respecting self-determination. Chile, moreover, hardly constituted a threat to the security of the U.S. It is also impossible for me to accept the secret war in Laos. Nothing in the Constitution entitled the CIA to fight a war that was disclosed neither to the Congress nor to the American people...
...past five years in Washington, most recently as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "What we are witnessing in Lisbon," Carlucci told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, "is a well-oiled, well-directed smear campaign." As an example, he cited a newspaper story that he had served in Chile and had given Spinola the green light for last week's coup. "Well," said Carlucci, "I have never met Spinola and have never been in Chile...
...league sent a delegation of about 20 members to Chile shortly after the 1973 coup to assess political and economic conditions there, McCarter said last night...