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Harvard Campaign officials, pleased with the results of their Lesser Developed Countries Phase, kick off their Repressive Regimes Phase with gals fundraisers for alum in EJ Salvador, Chile and South Africa...
...Once he couldn't go near a campus without hearing "War criminal!" He hasn't been forgiven by many yet, and he can't pass an airport newsstand these days without seeing a copy of the Atlantic, with an article accusing him of past perfidy in Chile. But he has become rich: Wall Street pays handsomely for his advice; editors want his words; his speeches command top prices; his reputation is secure as the dominant American strategist in foreign affairs for two decades...
Nathan's premise is that "a plausible case is being developed that CIA officials may have also done in Australia what they managed to achieve in Iran, Guatemala and Chile: destroy an elected government." Nathan recounts the rise of Whitlam, from his 1972 victory to the distrust that quickly developed between Washington and Canberra. Whitlam gave the U.S. State Department good reason to be nervous: his government recognized North Viet Nam and North Korea, removed a ban on the sale of strategic materials to the Soviet Union, and sent its Deputy Prime Minister on a tour of North Viet...
While OPIC has never lost money, it has paid off some hefty insurance claims. OPIC paid $316 million to ITT, Anaconda and 13 other U.S. firms whose property was expropriated in 1971 by Chile's Salvador Allende, but expects to recover the bulk of that from the present Chilean government. Firms driven out of Iran in 1979 have received an additional $14.5 million from OPIC, whose total liability to them could reach $40 million...
...Mexico virtually defaulted on $80 billion it owed international banks, money managers around the globe have had a bad case of the jitters. While the Toronto meeting was going on last week, there were reports of still more Latin American financial troubles. The heads of the central banks of Chile and Argentina were summarily removed from their posts, and Argentine officials began looking for new loans so that the country could meet payments on a $40 billion debt. Jacques de Larosière, the managing director of the IMF, told the assembled moneymen in Toronto: "The world economic situation...