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...rooms are huge," says Chile E. Hidalgo '99, who also lives in Cabot. "We have our own singles, our own kitchen, a balcony, a bathroom. It's pretty sweet...
...arms lobby first had to stir up demand among the Latin Americans. The Pentagon quietly arranged for Puerto Rican Air National Guard pilots to fly Brazilian generals in F-16s. In March 1996 an armada of U.S. warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering...
...Chile became the test case for opening the arms pipeline to Latin America. Chile's military, which takes a 10% cut of revenues from the country's copper exports, had the cash to buy 24 new jets. Washington had to act fast if it wanted to be among the eager foreign bidders, Chilean President Eduardo Frei warned Clinton during a February visit. The Chilean military wanted detailed specifications on the F-16 and F/A-18 by the end of March...
...received $27,000 in PAC money from the F-16's and F/A-18's manufacturers. Hamilton's campaign had received $18,500. On March 10, aerospace executives met with a Gore aide and presidential counselor Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, who is Clinton's special envoy on Latin American trade issues. Chile, the executives warned, would probably take delivery on new jets by 2000, an election year, when Gore could ill afford to see jobs lost in California, Florida, Texas and Ohio, where the Falcon and Hornet are built...
Bill Cohen, who as a Maine Senator received $10,100 from the jet manufacturers' PACs, had signed the letter to Christopher demanding an end to the restrictions. Now he lobbied the White House to send Chile the F-16 and F/A-18 specifications before March 31, warning that the Americans would be left out of the bidding if they missed the deadline...