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...movement to end the American military presence in Indo-China. Many tried to maintain the energy of the movement, but without a concrete focus the previously united activists drifted away into their own areas of interest. Even the U.S. complicity in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile was unable to revive the old coalition...
...morality" of the Carter administration dismisses the horrors of Vietnam and Chile as characteristic of a bygone era. The U.S. is in the process of re-thinking and re-aligning itself to protect what remains of its global power. Admiral T.H. Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed this shift in testimony before the U.S. Senate...
Perhaps the most striking, if ironic, confirmation of the importance and effectiveness of Amnesty International's human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...
Henry Kissinger is the man responsible for the scorched earth policy that left large portions of Vietnam uninhabitable-portions still unfit as places to live. Kissinger widened the Vietnam war into Laos and Cambodia. Kissinger headed the destablization effort that toppled the freely elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. And Kissinger lied about all these crimes, not just to the press, but to Congress and the American people as well...
Edward Boorstein--on Chile, Fascism and the U.S. at Morse Auditorium...