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...DAYS AGO the United States formally asked Chile to extradite three former Chilean secret police agents who have been accused of assasinating Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. under Allende and outspoken critic of the present right wing military junta...
...show of unity, the front, joined by the Sandinistas, called on five friendly Latin American nations to mediate a ceasefire; the front itself refused to deal directly with Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
Contributing to the anxiety of Iran and Pakistan is the recent shift leftward of their common neighbor Afghanistan. In April a leftist junta overthrew and killed President Mohammad Daoud. American policymakers are reserving judgment on the nature and course of the new regime, but in Tehran and Islamabad the judgment is in, and it is thoroughly pessimistic, if somewhat alarmist. Iranian and Pakistani officials are certain that the coup was instigated by Moscow. After more than a century as a neutral buffer state in the great game, Afghanistan, they say, is now a Soviet satellite. "We, Pakistan...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious announcements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious pronoucements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to Americam foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...