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...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...
...official somewhat lefthandedly: "We are in for the long pull. We aim for a broad middle market, which militates against jumping quickly in and out with new merchandise. Bloomingdale's is clearly one of a kind." Among customers there are carpings about high prices, crowds and service. Heiress-Actress Dina Merrill likes the store's ice cream and housewares but buys no furniture there; she says the prices are too high. Sniffs Ilene Barth, editor of a Manhattan weekly newspaper: "People who go to Bloomingdale's don't trust their own taste...
...threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical College of Virginia reports on the family of a man who had a heart transplant in 1968: when the patient was near death, the family functioned well; when he recovered, the family unraveled; whenever he relapsed, the family functioned well again...
...family has uncontested evidence that Luis is in the hands of the DINA [Chile's secret police]. There are strong indications that he is being detained in a prisoners' camp in northern Chile and that high government authorities are purposely denying his detention...
...past, responsibility for burnt, bullet-ridden corpses like those found near Buenos Aires has been claimed by the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, a right-wing terrorist group publicly linked to José López Rega. A working relationship would well serve the mutual interests of DINA and the A. A. A. DINA has a long list of names for which it needs bodies and the A.A.A. has bodies for which it needs names. DINA, it is thought, was particularly interested in whittling down its long list of missing persons before the arrival of a delegation from the U.N. Human...