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...neighboring Nicaragua. So far this year, at least 700 people have been killed-more than in all 1979. Last week was a particularly bloody one. It began with a call for a 24-hour general strike by leftists who hope to bring down the country's ruling junta. Troops and police battled guerrillas in a daylong orgy of violence in the capital, San Salvador, that left, by official count, 53 dead, with unofficial estimates running well over 100. The heaviest confrontation took place at the national university, where four leftist organizations have their headquarters. The soldiers did not invade...
...have been given by Professor Harberger to the military regime in Chile. The results are also more or less the same. Two old clients of HIID, Pakistan and Indonesia, ended up with the same economic structure as Chile, along with military repression. As a matter of fact, the military junta in Chile is following the Indonesian model, both in its military operation against the Left (the military coup in September 1973 against Salvador Allende was called "Operation Jakarta"), and its model of economic development (the cooperation between the military leaders and the economic technocrats, the "Berkeley Mafia" in the case...
Students at the rally watched a guerilla theater performance satirizing Bok's views on moral considerations in appointments and listened to speakers who criticized Harberger's role as an adviser to the Chilean military junta...
...means best for the poor. In addition, Harberger and his colleagues fail to take income distribution into account, and when they boast that there has been "growth" and "progress" in Chile, one cannot help wondering "growth" for whom? Though he tried to explain his shady links with the Chilean junta on Sunday, February 17th, at the Kennedy School, those of us present remained unconvinced...
...issued for trips to Santiago, and high officials of the Chilean government will come to Harvard as honored guests of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Through the weekly, perhaps daily, exchanges between Cambridge and Santiago which Harberger's loyalty to his friends will require, Harvard and the junta will grow closer...