Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Henry Kissinger. Still angered by the disclosure of the CIA's intervention in Chilean politics, Senators saw a chance to strike back when a resolution authorizing a temporary continuation of foreign aid came to the floor last week. A majority voted an amendment banning military aid to Chile. Then, by a much larger margin, the Senate voted to cut off military assistance to Turkey on the ground that U.S. weaponry had been used in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Finally, the Senate voted to stop shipments of fertilizer to South Viet...
...near his home in Buenos Aires. His murder brought to eight the number of military killed or wounded since a left-wing terrorist group vowed last month to assassinate sixteen officers to avenge the deaths of sixteen guerrillas (TIME, Sept. 30). In addition, a terrorist's bomb killed Chile's exiled former army commander, General Carlos Prats, who had been a supporter of the late Marxist President Salvador Allende...
...quaint notion that in a democracy the people are sovereign. When it comes to the need for dirty tricks, the people behave very much like other bosses. They say to their hirelings, "Go ahead, but don't tell me about it." In the case of the CIA in Chile, Mr. Ford came out of the closet and told us about it, and we are all embarrassed. Our embarrassment is compounded by his insulting our intelligence by saying the U.S. was only interested in preserving democratic dissent in Chile. Washington has been notably restrained in its passion for democratic dissent...
...this sense, of a future blossoming from the seeds of a past, that the experiment of Chile has so firmly grasped the minds of people in the Western world. Workers accustomed to slaving in factories for subsistence-level wages seized control of their places of work and planned common ownership. Field laborers in the rural areas forced their way onto large plantations and marked off plots of land they could cultivate themselves. And, in the slums surrounding Santiago, Chileans took a new pride in their past, setting up schools and community centers to make their children aware of their cultural...
...Chile has now fallen victim to a further swing of the pendulum ever-moving between past and future. Those who would use the past to create a new future have temporarily succumbed to the indiscriminate forces of the modern age. But the hope of Chile, in its fading from reality into history and from life into literature, becomes a new piece in a puzzle perpetually being pieced together. While in Europe and the U.S. the horizon is circumscribed by the steel and concrete of ever-rising skyscrapers, in Latin America the vistas for the future are unlimited. There the mills...