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Edward M. Korry is one iconoclast whose political criticism of the U.S. government was so damaging that he felt the need to leave the country and settle in Britian. Korry was Nixon's ambassador to Chile during Allende's presidency, and has been one of the few upper echelon figures to tell all he knows of U.S. intervention efforts there. In a television interview last month Korry said he was told by Nixon that the United States would not tolerate a Marxist regime like Allende's in the Western Hemisphere, and that he (Nixon) had ordered the CIA to interfere...
...very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees at embassies, including those of India, Chile, Rumania and Pakistan...
...Here in Chile, in the middle of enormous difficulties, a truly just society was being erected, based on our sovereignty, our national pride, and the heroism of the best of Chile's population. On our side, on the side of the Chilean revolution, were the constitution and the law, democracy and hope...
Neruda would just live to see the generals and fascists have their way. He wrote the last entry in the Memoirs three days after Allende's assassination: "...the tanks went into action, many tanks, fighting heroically against a single man: the President of the Republic of Chile, Salvadore Allende, who was waiting for them in his office, with no other company but his great heart, surrounded by smoke and flames." Five days later the poet for whom Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize in 1964 died heartbroken, having witnessed in his own country the same tragedy he had seen...
...Israelis had equipped with U.S. jet engines. A more serious complaint comes from Raytheon Co., which accuses the Israelis of scavenging an air-to-air missile called Shafrir out of Raytheon's Sidewinder-specifically, by stealing Sidewinder's infra-red guidance system -and then selling it to Chile...