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...regrettable reality is that investment issues--from South Africa, nuclear weapons research and corporate expansion in Chile to the contents of baby formulas--have become more and more thoroughly institutionalized since President Bok's 1972 creation of the ACSR and the Corporation's reluctant April 1978 release of its official report on investment issues...
...should we have more of the CIA's dirty tricks? They toppled popular governments and substituted oppressive dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
...assistance is one of the most striking changes in the Reagan Administration's approach to foreign policy. The Carter Administration had frequently threatened a cutoff of aid to foreign governments accused of trampling on human rights. But Reagan last month lifted economic sanctions, which had been imposed on Chile when the Pinochet regime refused to cooperate in an investigation into the outrageous assassination in Washington, B.C., of former Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier. Earlier Reagan welcomed to the White House Chun Doo Hwan, President of South Korea, a nation deservedly criticized by Carter policymakers for its human rights violations...
...example, more freedom and cultural vitality in Chile-even under its present state of siege-than in Cuba...
Your editorial "End Aid to El Salvador" makes good sense in arguing against United States support to military regimes in violation of human rights, but a Chile, El Salvador is not. Historically the United States has supported, toppled and even created governments in Latin America as a hedge against undesirable influence in the hemisphere. Today we see that our support has created dictatorial regimes that, while being anti-communist, neither live up to American ideals of human rights nor enjoy popular support. To complicate matters the left has been able to play on such misguided policy to rally support...