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Word: edificio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was wearing a heavy tweed jacket, brown slacks and loafers when we met him at Edificio Diego Portales. He is a ruddy, thickset man with the look of a prosperous Swiss dairy farmer in town for the day. One had half-expected a general's braided visor, the dark glasses and cruel lips seen on all the anti-junta posters from Sweden to Berkeley. "You can see I am not so horrible," said Pinochet, "that I don't eat babies." In an anteroom outside his office, a memorable scene: 22 generals of the Chilean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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