Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the fighting for Moneda Palace began, Pinochet went on, the junta asked Allende to surrender four separate times. "But the only thing he wanted was to gain time, possibly in the hope that our unity might break. We guaranteed his safe conduct out of the country. We even put off the air force attack for an hour to allow Señor Allende to consider his options...
...presidential palace was attacked, Pinochet said, "because Allende was protected by a guard who had heavy weapons, even bazookas." What about the prospect of a "reaction" to his junta from the dead President's numerous and apparently well-armed supporters? Said the general, calmly but firmly: "We have taken the necessary precautions...
...long and mostly inglorious history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. Thus it came as no surprise to Washington that the Chilean junta's overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly...
...case showing that the U.S. was not involved in the military's coup. Administration officials issued unqualified denials of U.S. complicity-perhaps suspect in light of recent revelations about, say, the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. There were equally strong denials from leaders of the junta that their coup had outside help. Most tellingly, the CIA called the Centaur plan a hoax...
Signed Copies. Just when it seemed that some mobility and communication would be restored for reporters in Santiago, the junta introduced censorship. Quickly labeled "file now, die later" by the journalists, the system required reporters to deposit signed copies of all their files with the censor for possible use as "judicial evidence." The punishment for "false" reporting, spokesmen said, might be "the opposite of being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message...