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...period last week U.S. foreign policy appeared to be taking an historic turn. In a Senate debate over the moral implications of U.S. foreign aid, the use of torture and political imprisonment became important enough issues to move the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to ban all U.S. aid to Chile. This moral effort was predictably short-lived. Two days after the Committee vote a joint House-Senate conference removed all restrictions on aid to Chile--thereby reaffirming the status quo of U.S. foreign aid, in which concern over the use of torture and political imprisonment is not a determining factor...
...problem is magnified when intelligence agencies engage in covert action, attempting to influence events, as we did in Chile. Covert action is questionable on moral grounds. It is expensive in dollars and in political repercussions. But the real irony is that these operations are rarely effective. The CIA is given credit for everything mysterious that happens in the world, but the truth is that the agency is not that good...
...agency, and as intelligence agencies go, the CIA is fairly good. The problem occurs when Presidents and Secretaries of State begin to think that James Bond has any relevancy to the real world. It is not William Colby who should be brought to judgment about the U.S. role in Chile, but Henry Kissinger...
President Ford's glib defense of the CIA's covert involvement in the internal political affairs of Chile represents a remarkable rejection of our professed foreign policy goals. One wonders how he squares such tactics with the often-cited rationale for our involvement in Viet Nam: to allow national self-determination...
...Gribbin and Plagemann are right, says Anderson, more quakes should have occurred when the planets last aligned on one side of the sun in 1803. But historical records for such quake-prone regions as Chile, Japan and China show no such upswing in seismological activity that year. Equally to the point, says U.C.L.A. Astronomy Chairman George Abell, Jupiter and Saturn alone are such huge planets that they pack about twelve times the mass of all the other planets combined; yet in their more frequent lineups they show no special gravitational influence on solar activities or earthquakes...