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...added that in testimony before the committee in February of 1976, he revealed that President John F. Kennedy '40 illegally funnelled millions of dollars through the Agency for International Development, the CIA, and various anticommunist Jesuit organizations to support Eduardo Frei's 1963 presidential campaign against Dr. Salvador Allende...
...Memoirs do give us wonderful sketches of Neruda's friends and contemporaries--Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Eduardo Frei, Soong Ch'ing Ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, and Cesar Vallejo among others--but they somehow leave us without the personal detail of Neruda himself. The Memoirs, for instance, barely mention Neruda's first wife or marriage, an 18-year venture--and have no more than one or two dozen specific time references...
...hustling and mugging are commonplace. It has been even worse lately because of New York City's empty coffers and the continued loss of factory jobs to other parts of the country. Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter's election has brought a measure of wary optimism. Explained Community Worker Eduardo Standard: "They expect him to pay more attention to jobs. Doesn't matter whether it's private jobs or public jobs, just so long as it's work. As we say here, when you're sitting on a hot furnace, there's no place...
...guerrillas might still bring off some resounding feats," said retired General Eduardo Jose Catan, "but there is no doubt that they have lost the war." The general, speaking at the vast Campo de Mayo garrison outside Buenos Aires, was more prophetic than he realized. Just a few minutes after he finished talking, the guerrillas brought off the latest of their resounding feats: a time bomb planted in the reviewing stand blew out a yard-wide hole at the exact spot where Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla had been standing. Because the ceremonies had ended three minutes early, Videla...
Last January, for example, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel dismissed General Eduardo D'Avila Mela, the commander of the second army in Sao Paulo and a notorious advocate of torture. That seemed to reduce the mistreatment of prisoners in the city, but there was a flurry of new charges that prisoners in Rio were being tortured. Some civil rights activists believe that the São Paulo torturers simply shifted their operations to Rio. "There is a national network of torturers," says one ex-prisoner and torture victim; "they coordinate their work. It is a system and therefore very powerful...