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...Chilean army attacked with brutal force the hundreds of Chilean workers who fought to defend Allende's government. Hundreds of students who resisted the coup were rounded up and placed in Santiago's National Stadium, where more than 200 were shot as the other watched, helpless. Victor Jara, a young Chilean folksinger, sang to the people in the stadium as the junta's soldiers tortured and finally killed...
...know of the murder of President Allende, the beating to death of the great Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the jailings, beatings and torture of former members and supporters of the Allende government...
...onetime Wehrmacht cryptographer has shown skill at cracking ancient linguistic codes. Fifteen years ago, Barthel reported deciphering the so-called "talking boards" of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The Inca mystery was every bit as challenging. But he had invaluable help from Peruvian Archaeologist Victoria de la Jara. If there was a written language, she suspected, it must be hidden in the geometric designs (tocapus) found on priestly garments and wooden vessels...
...many years, Señorita de la Jara immersed herself in Inca history and painstakingly catalogued tocapus. But she failed to find what she was looking for: an Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone, the key that opened ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern understanding. Finally, she turned her researches over to Barthel. With the same shrewdness that enabled him to decipher several Allied codes during World War II, Barthel made use of an important clue in her material. Many of the Inca vessels bore pictures as well as tocapus. In fact, one common scene portrayed the act of toasting...
...University. The initial results were quite good. For the past two years Harvard has shared with five other universities a Ford Foundation grant of $1 million for a faculty exchange program. Young Latin American professors, such as Helio Jaquaribe, Visiting Lecturer in Government for three terms, and Alvaro Jara, who will teach colonial economic history next year, have been brought to Harvard. Under the Ford program and an additional grant from the Holland Research Fund, young faculty members have received money for study in Latin America...