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Climaxing a torrent of anti-American speeches at the convention, she charged that "some powers that had tasted success in their destabilization game in Chile nurtured similar designs against India." In response to this implicit attack on U.S. policies, Washington officially expressed its "concern and dismay" to New Delhi. "Mrs. Gandhi genuinely believes that Indian society must be transformed," says one veteran diplomat in New Delhi. "But, all the disclaimers to the contrary, she probably also believes that she is the only person who can do it." For the time being at least, many of India's 600 million...
Britain last week recalled its Ambassador to Chile - for an unusual reason: Chilean maltreatment of a British citizen. The citizen was Sheila Cassidy, 37, a surgeon who worked at an emergency clinic in a working-class area of Santiago. Dr. Cassidy had been summoned by a Roman Catholic priest to treat a leftist political fugitive for gun shot wounds in October. She was arrested in November and finally released last week. Upon landing in London, she declared that after her arrest she was stripped by Chilean police, subjected to electric-shock torture and spent 2½ weeks in solitary confinement...
Cassidy. "No British government," he said, "can accept such uncivilized, brutal treatment of a British subject in the hands of a foreign government." At week's end Chile denied that Dr. Cassidy had been tortured...
Tense Face-off. Apart from the diplomatic confrontation between London and Santiago, the case of Dr. Cassidy highlighted one of the central dramas in Chile today: a tense face-off between church and state over the is sues of human rights and torture. In the months since the military coup that toppled Salvador Allende, the country's Christian leaders have emerged as the principal opposition to the repressive measures imposed by President Augusto Pinochet and his junta. As a result, priests, nuns and Christian laymen have become the objects of roundups by DINA, the dreaded Chilean secret police...
...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...