Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quito of foreign ministers representing the Organization of American States, several Latin American diplomats were confidently passing the word that the OAS would vote to end the diplomatic and economic quarantine it slapped on Cuba in 1964. They were wrong. On the balloting, three nations (Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile) voted no, six (including the U.S.) abstained, and twelve were in favor-two less than the two-thirds majority necessary for passage...
...also defended support of the regimes of South Vietnam, South Korea and Chile, called "reactionary" by his questioners, on the grounds of national security and national defense and because "they're on our side...
Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...
...idea that there is something terrible in having the citizenry outgun the police is even more disturbing. Of those places where the reverse is the case (Chile, Cuba, Spain, the U.S.S.R.), banning most firearms and other weapons has facilitated the trampling of more basic freedoms...
...World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted by the specter of Chile), he is least acceptable to the army and the Americans, who are still feared as potentially troublesome. As Kissinger told Greek Archibishop Iakovos, with blithe overgeneralization, "We do not wish at all to see Papandreou governing Greece because this would mean subjecting Greece to Communist power...