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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approximately 100 political prisoners in the United States are draft resisters, while a substantial minority are civil rights cases. "Political imprisonment is a lot less heinous in this country than in others because we don't think that prisoners are being tortured and starved here as they are in Latin American counties," White explains...
...still languishing in Chilean jails. With a glint of anger in his eyes. Bitar remarks that the process of brutality has now been institutionalized in Chile, thereby producing "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government." He describes the Chilean leadership as having "the most reactionary mentality in Latin America today," and concludes that a change will occur in Chile in the near future, due to internal instability and external pressure...
...Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More than at most giant corporations, however, the lines of power at Exxon tend to lead directly...
Garvin's corporate background is in transport, refining and marketing as well as chemicals-areas of the business that are increasingly important to Exxon now that governments in the Middle East and Latin America are squeezing the profits out of petroleum production. Garvin was marked as a comer at Exxon in the early 1960s. In 1965 he took over the company's chemical operations and helped turn them into the fastest-growing part of Exxon's business...
...globe. Blackthorne is no simple salt but a bona fide Saturday-afternoon-at-the-movies hero with a "brooding, explosive violence that always lurked below his quiet exterior." His strength is as the strength of ten, and his brain is not bad either; he speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Latin fluently. Hardly has he learned to say Konnichiwa (Good day) before Blackthorne is up to his clavicle in inscrutable Eastern intrigues...