Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT FORD'S admission, in his September 16 press conference, that the United States had intervened in Chile's internal affairs with the intent to "destabilize" the democratically-elected government headed by Salvador Allende--and the international furor which had resulted from previous unofficial disclosures--may well, ironically enough, have had a positive effect on American foreign policy. Ford's blundering explanation of American activities in Chile was a remarkable example of political naivete. When asked whether intervention in another nation's internal affairs designed to weaken the foreign government could be justified under international law, and whether the Soviet...
...another point, in an effort to be more specific about U.S. expenditures for covert activities in Chile, Ford claimed that Allende had taken steps to muzzle opposition parties and press, although it was already known that the single incident which the administration could cite was the case of the newspaper, "El Mercurio," shut down for one day and then reopened by court order...
...this was indeed the reason that the trip was permitted, if it was purely a political move made by the State Department due to the precariousness of its internal position and the erosion of its credibility, it would still be a positive outgrowth of American crimes in Chile. But there may well be a more fundamental reason. President Ford has not yet publicly commented on the trip, and an aide to Javits said that the President had made no efforts to contact either Senator to prevent it. This appears to indicate that Javits and Pell at least had Ford...
...absolute" pardon of Nixon, saying it will heal America's wounds. He announces a plan of conditional amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers, requiring most to perform alternate service for two years--"earned re-entry," he calls it. He says that CIA subversion of the Allende government was in Chile's best interest, "and certainly in our best interest." He indicates such activity will continue in other countries...
...matter much, and when that becomes clear they shift to things that matter even less, from Ford's alleged slowness to his willingness to pick up his own newspaper. And when reporters discover the same man they're been billing as an exemplar of truth-telling telling lies about Chile, they don't know how to account for it: all they can do is change their line. Because they share Ford's false assumptions, his more radical dishonesty...