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...hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone in the clinic saw the card and, apparently just to be helpful, called a Boston policeman and asked, "Did you know that Brezhnev was coming to town...
...seven defendants were arrested when police broke up a demonstration against a B.U. center for Latin American Development Studies conference at which World Bank president Robert S. McNamara and former Chilean president Eduardo Frei were scheduled to appear
...these terms apply only when the cause is a leftist one. "Freedom of speech" is a beautiful ideal, so long as this right is reserved for such groups as the New American Movement and prohibited for others such as the supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free Press (October...
...Center was hosting a conference in which former Chilean President Eduardo Frei and World Bank President Robert S. McNamara were scheduled to participate
What ITT did not know was that the CIA also supported Frei's election with $3 million. And while the U.S. government claimed, according to Charles A. Meyer, former assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, that "we financed no candidates, no political parties before or after September 4 [1970]," and despite the fact that Nixon stated in October 1969, "We will deal with governments as they are," it is now clear that the U.S. government deeply influenced Chilean politics to the extent of buying votes in the Chilean congress and funding political candidates as early as 1964. While...