Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convinced them not to unload Chilean goods--not only in Holland but anywhere in the world. Shortly after this successful trip, Moffitt says, the Chilean press began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife then became subject to harassment--"They would call up Isabel Letelier at night and say, 'Are you Orlando Letelier's wife?' and she would say yes and the voice would say, 'No--you're his widow' and hang up." And Orlando Letelier was continuously "observed" at lunches and meetings...
Moffitt has toured the country, talking to different groups to try to put pressure on the U.S. government to solve the "murders" of his wife and Letelier. In addition, he and Isabel Letelier published a report last month through the Transnational Institute, an adjunct of IPS, detailing the "relationship between foreign economic assistance, private capital flows and the state of human rights in Chile since September 11, 1973, when the military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende." One of the purposes of the report is to air "the conflicts between...
...same time Rep. Thomas R. Harkin (D-Iowa) is drawing up legislation to force disclosure of private bank loans to governments the U.S. Congress has tagged as human rights violators, and is exploring a way to bring private policies more in conformity with public policies through legislation. Moffitt and Isabel Letelier also sent letters to the heads of all the banks loaning money to Chile saying, "We don't think it's appropriate for banks which are based and chartered through the U.S. to be lending to the Pinochet government at the same time as leading members of his government...
Mary Gordon's Dover Road was actually a heavily Catholic section of Valley Stream, L.I. Her mother, "a nice Catholic girl" and now a legal secretary, has lived in the same house for 58 years. Mary, who is 29, sometimes feels, like Isabel, that the most interesting part of her life is her past. Her father's family were the only Jews in Lorain, Ohio. They managed to send their son to Harvard, but he dropped out and knocked around Europe for a few years. Says Mary: "He once started a girlie magazine called Hot Dog. When...
...example. "I deserve something, but not all that," she muses. She will take a trip to Spain, teach a course on the religious novel at Amherst next year, finish a new book and "look into causes that need help" if that money piles up too high. First, like Isabel after her liberation, she will buy some clothes at Bloomingdale...