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With every mention of Chile, Vietnam, and Harrisburg, SASC opens a new argument. With every implicit opinion on matters other than South Africa. SASC clouds the issue. The issue is the enslavement of black South Africans. SASC must stick to the basic issue, only then will it garner the maximum support for the struggle against apartheid. Franklin McMahon '82 Mark A. Sauter...
...that Vietnam was not an isolated episode or an aberration in an otherwise pure history. "The U.S. is still just as militaristic, just as exploitative, maybe not in such obvious ways," Gabriella says. People who do not see the similarities between American policy in Vietnam and its role in Chile, Nicaragua or Southern Africa suffer from "a failure of imaginative empathy," she says...
...need understanding to note that repression is not principally Islamic or Oriental but a reprehensible aspect of the human phenomenon. "Islam" cannot explain everything in Africa and Asia, just as "Christianity" cannot explain Chile or South Africa. If Iranian workers, Egyptian students, Palestinian farmers resent the West or the U.S., it is as a concrete response to a specific policy injuring them as human beings. Certainly a European or American would be entitled to feel that the Islamic multitudes are underdeveloped; but he would also have to concede that underdevelopment is a relative cultural and economic judgment and not mainly...
Carter and his principal aides are struggling for some sound footing on the slippery slope they have helped to grease. Vice President Walter Mondale just a few days ago, talking to visiting editors, was condemning earlier U.S. covert operations in Chile. These "efforts to manipulate the internal affairs of another society," he suggested, would shame us for a generation. Parson's son that he is, Mondale in his fervor implied that the Administration felt that representing U.S. interests in such fashion was sinful, a position that shows some misunderstanding of what actually went on in Chile...
Guillermo and Ross could get life terms when sentenced next month. Ignacio may receive 13 years in jail. The Justice Department, meanwhile, will try to extradite from Chile Contreras and two other ex-DINA colleagues who Townley says helped plot the murder. The Pinochet regime is not expected to oblige...