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There are, of course, nonsocialist countries that grossly violate civil and political rights. Witness Iran, Chile or Haiti. Yet it is surely more than coincidence that the only functioning democracies are found in capitalist or mixed-economy states, while authoritarianism is firmly installed in every socialist country, with the exception of the social democracies. This has prompted deep self-searching by many socialists. Says Asoka Mehta, India's leading socialist thinker: "Socialism is an attractive goal, but concentration of power is as dangerous as concentration of capital." Oxford Research Fellow Leszek Kolakowski, a dedicated socialist who left Poland...
...former CIA director pleaded nolo contendere last October to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973. His testimony concerned the intelligence agency s alleged efforts to block the election of the late Salvador Allende as president of Chile...
People went wild and the band said chile...
Three Chilean academics said yesterday they thought talks held earlier this week with President Bok and Dean Rosovsky on current academic repression in Chile were productive...
...Amherst College (1946-60); of a heart attack; on a cruise ship off Los Angeles. The youngest man ever to head Amherst, Cole introduced a core curriculum required for all students and greatly enlarged the college's endowment. From 1961 to 1964 he served as Ambassador to Chile...