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...Secretary proceeded to outline the Clinton Administration's capitalist initiatives for the upcoming year. The foremost goal is to cement the "implementation" of trade agreements that promote the "U.S. as the hub of an increasingly open global free trading system." This expansionary mode includes a push to invite Chile to join Nafta. Among the most original proposals was Christopher's pledge to assist American environmental industries in order to "capture more of a $400 billion global market...
...Berlin 12,000 angry youths threw eggs and tomatoes at a French cultural center. In Chile 10,000 protesters formed a human chain in a Santiago park. Thousands took to the streets in Sydney and Tokyo, while demonstrators in Manila burned a French flag. Japan's Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura called the French action "crazy." Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating branded it "an act of stupidity." Chile and New Zealand recalled their ambassadors. The tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati broke off relations with Paris. Washington showed more restraint, expressing "regrets," while Bonn and London refrained from...
...team surprised most of the soccer world by beating Chile, Argentina and Mexico to advance to the semifinals of the Copa, the South American championship that some consider the second most important tournament in the world. Alas, the U.S. lost 1-0 to Brazil Thursday night in Maldonado, but the team played well enough to put a scare into the Brazilians, who had never lost to the North Americans and in fact had not given up a goal to them in 65 years. As Carlos Alberto Parreira, who coached Brazil to its World Cup victory last year, says...
...Paris the next year. Thus, although he liked to posture as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France to Chile--a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around the Horn--to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. By the end of the year he was back in Paris, with a few crepuscular seascapes but no honorable scars to show for his excursion...
...adolescent, Allende spent time in La Paz and Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American...