Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to Italy and South Korea, armored personnel carriers to Jordan and Norway, heavy-duty CH-47 (Chinook) helicopters to Iran, Spain and South Viet Nam, destroyers to Chile, counterinsurgency equipment to the Philippines and C-130 Hercules air transports to Sweden and Zaire...
...number of shiny new weapons that rumble past the reviewing stand during a military parade. Moreover, disputed borders and the suspicion of seemingly hostile neighbors frequently lead to intense local arms races. This has been the case with India and Pakistan, Mali and Upper Volta, and Peru, Bolivia and Chile...
Latin America is also enmeshed in an arms buildup. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
Thanks to this arms race, tension has already begun building on the Peru-Chile border. Lima's military strongmen are believed to want to retake the Ta-rapaca province which Peru lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Peru has its new Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though...
...should be given stronger punishment for the same betrayal of justice. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, former chief advisors in the White House, both deserve to be tried, along with Nixon, for possible collusion in, or at least prior knowledge of, crimes related to the war in Vietnam, the coup in Chile, administration impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, and CIA domestic spying. But in this trial, their positions as two of the most important people in the White House, and Mardian's and Mitchell's positions as well, demand that the example all four set as deterrants be especially strong...