Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than five weeks have passed since the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens was overthrown by Chile's military junta. Yet the bloodletting goes on. Last week 21 more Chileans were slain, 15 by firing squads and six in a battle with soldiers...
...reinforce the effect of the terror." The jurists did not report on the number of persons slain since the Sept. 11 coup; an estimate based on official figures puts the toll at 588, but observers estimate it much higher, probably more than 1,000. In its economic policy, the junta was moving to restore free enterprise. Junta leader General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte announced that more than 300 foreign and Chilean companies taken over without compensation by the Allende regime would probably be returned to their owners. The companies include around 40 U.S. firms-but not the three large American copper...
...based multinational companies have long since written off as dead losses the Chilean operations that were expropriated by the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. But last week the new Chilean Foreign Minister, Ismael Huerta, announced at the U.N. that the military junta that overthrew Allende in a bloody coup last month has reopened negotiations with Anaconda and Kennecott with a view toward paying them something for those giant copper mines -Anaconda's Chuquicamata and Kennecott's El Teniente-that Allende expropriated. Some other members of the Chilean U.N. mission even dropped hints that Anaconda and Kennecott might actually...
Approximately 50 members of Non-Intervention in Chile (NICH), marched into the IAPA meeting to protest the presence of publishers of Chilean newspapers El Mercurio and La Tribuna, which the group labelled pro-junta...
Carrying placards reading "U.S. out of Chile; Fascists out of Sheraton," and "No peace; No honor; Kissinger is the junta's father," NICH members marched for about 30 minutes in front of the Prudential Center before entering the meeting...