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...development of a Chilean weapons industry is an indirect result of the arms embargo that the U.S. imposed on the South American nation in 1976. That was the same year that Chilean secret-police agents in Washington, D.C., murdered Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean Defense Minister whom the government of Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte disliked for his criticism of its human rights violations. When Chile almost went to war with Argentina in 1978 over ownership of three islands in the Beagle Channel, near the continent's southern tip, the Chilean government urged private industry to become involved in defense...
...remain so. In Hawaii a tough law forced even the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, one of the world's poshest resorts, to build an access path to the beach for the public. The hotel, however, has reduced the flow of ordinary tourists by charging high parking fees. Such indirect attempts to limit beach-going crowds are common. Resort towns often impose parking restrictions and stiff bridge and beach tolls for nonresidents. But these too are being attacked. In Florida this month, Governor Bob Graham authorized local officials in St. Augustine to press a lawsuit challenging beach tolls...
...every University facility and dormitory is open to women. But there are still rooms at Harvard that women may not enter--the secret cloisters of the college's nine all-male final clubs, where the genteel intolerance of the 1950s still flourishes. Many of the clubs, moreover, enjoy the indirect or direct support of the College administration, in areas such as steam and telephone service at reduced rates and official assistance in organizing their annual fall selection process...
...toward a peace settlement and brings confidence we will succeed in a short time." He referred to the process begun in January 1983 when representatives of the four countries met at the Panamanian resort island of Contadora to search for a peaceful solution to the Central American crisis through indirect diplomacy...
...preposterous to hold creators responsible for the indirect effects of their speech or publications on certain dangerously impressionable members of society. Ought President Reagan to be able to sue Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese because they inspired John Hinckley? One is reminded of the trial in Florida a few years ago, in which a juvenile delinquent claimed that his crimes stemmed from a Kojak addiction...