Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for dramatic stories, German Freelance Reporter Günter Wallraff has masqueraded as a derelict, a mental patient, a napalm-factory worker and a Portuguese terrorist. He once chained himself to an Athens lamppost so that he could investigate justice under the Greek junta. His masquerade worked all too well: he was tortured and then imprisoned for three months. Wallraff s latest and most outrageous pose: a reporter...
...week he spent on the La Junta, Colo., set in 1972 was one of "extraordinary hard work" Womack said, adding that the two scenes in which he appeared required up to ten takes each. The filmm akersprovided transportation from Cambridge, but paid him nothing...
...several instances, Harvard development teams have parted on less than amicable terms with host countries. After Colonel Acheampong's military takeover in 1972, the government of Ghana asked Harvard to pack its bags. And when a military junta took over in Greece in 1967. Harvard terminated a contract with the Greek government...
...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...
...indeed that one of the chains the Chilean people will have to break through if they are to be free is U.S. economic support for the junta. Unless, of course, the people of this country join in the fight against the junta and all it stands for. In his last speech before he died, Allende told the people of Chile his death would not be in vain. It is up to us, in part, to make sure...