Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California Democrat Alan Cranston complained that Lefever "seems to have a blind eye to human rights violations by right-wing military dictatorships." Indeed, Lefever has been an apologist for governmental repression in South Africa, South Korea and Chile-governments he defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended these proposals unanimously, except in the case of the Mobil resolution on Chile--where a plurality voted for and only one member voted against the proposals...
...Corporation also abstained on several other proposals, involving U.S. corporate expansion in Chile and an investigation of disputed herbicides--including an ingredient of the disputed Agent Orange--which had been approved by the ACSR. The string of abstentions disappointed some ACSR members...
...Mali, and sending teams to dig wells in the Sudan from the sixth floor of a tastefully modern office building on Cambridge St. But last winter, when President Bok offered the institute's directorship to Arnold C. Harberger, a University of Chicago economist who had been a consultant to Chile's repressive military regime, a storm of student and faculty protest went up, Harberger declined the position, and suddenly everybody had heard of HIID...
...Chile...