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After reading your comprehensive story on our big stick approach to Central America [Aug. 8], I wondered what would happen if, the next time a poor, ill-fed and uneducated people revolted against a dictatorship, the U.S. were to support the rebels. The Russians would then have no one to aid. Would this be so terrible...
...over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour riot: two dead, nine injured and more than 500 arrested...
...leaflets endorsing the protests. The arrest may have been a mistake. A crowd of 500 jammed Santiago's Supreme Court building to hear a lawyer read a statement signed by 1,000 prominent Chileans calling for Valdés' release. Said a Socialist politician: "The dictatorship has unwillingly made a national leader out of Gabriel Vald...
...Administration policy was further tarnished last week with the revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency had suggested to two congressional oversight committees last December that the CIA undertake a covert operation aimed at overthrowing the Marxist-oriented dictatorship of Desi Bouterse in the South American nation of Suriname. The idea was flatly turned down by Congress, on the ground that the CIA had failed to prove that the Surinamese government had fallen solidly into the Cuban and Soviet camp. If anything, the attempt seemed to help solidify congressional antagonism toward the kind of covert actions that the Reagan Administration...
...city signaled that the attacks were the work of an increasingly active band of guerrillas who call themselves Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Last week Belaúnde reluctantly cracked down. For the first time since his democratically elected government took power in 1980 after twelve years of military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although all but 14 were subsequently released. The harsh actions run counter...