Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the increasing attention paid to america latino stems, no doubt, from the experiment in democratic socialism conducted in Chile by President Salvador Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...period last week U.S. foreign policy appeared to be taking an historic turn. In a Senate debate over the moral implications of U.S. foreign aid, the use of torture and political imprisonment became important enough issues to move the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to ban all U.S. aid to Chile. This moral effort was predictably short-lived. Two days after the Committee vote a joint House-Senate conference removed all restrictions on aid to Chile--thereby reaffirming the status quo of U.S. foreign aid, in which concern over the use of torture and political imprisonment is not a determining factor...
...Senate Committee's concern with the moral implications of U.S. aid to Chile was prefaced by a State Department controversy two weeks ago in which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 rebuked the U.S. ambassador to Chile, David H. Popper, for discussing "unrelated issues such as human rights and military aid in high level diplomatic talks...
...moral perspective of U.S. foreign aid to Chile is not unique. It is reflected in U.S. support of dictatorial regimes the world over, from Brazil to South Vietnam. However, the concern for human rights shown by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ambassador Popper is unique. As such it should be supported and echoed by Americans of all political persuasions who feel that torture and political imprisonment are wrong. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting regimes that must torture and murder to sustain themselves. Chile is a good place to start. The Congress should reject last week's vote...
...Gribbin and Plagemann are right, says Anderson, more quakes should have occurred when the planets last aligned on one side of the sun in 1803. But historical records for such quake-prone regions as Chile, Japan and China show no such upswing in seismological activity that year. Equally to the point, says U.C.L.A. Astronomy Chairman George Abell, Jupiter and Saturn alone are such huge planets that they pack about twelve times the mass of all the other planets combined; yet in their more frequent lineups they show no special gravitational influence on solar activities or earthquakes...