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...jails of Chile's right-wing military regime. He succeeded. By the time Simon's Air Force jet landed in Santiago for his ten-hour visit there, the Chileans had quietly agreed to free some 300 detainees, among them two former ministers in the ill-fated Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens. In a brief airport talk, Simon pointedly noted that U.S. aid to the regime "will be handicapped if there is not a clearer understanding of how the Chileans are ensuring that human rights are respected...
...response to a $50 million investment promised by Rumania. Many such deals would be required to clear Chile's jails of the estimated 5,000 to 6,000 political detainees remaining in them. The regime, which has defended its full prisons on the grounds of continuing danger from Marxist conspirators, has begun to slow down the pace of arrests; they have declined from 100 to 150 a month last year to about 50 a month recently. More than half of those arrested in the past several months have been released. The government has also promised to discuss civil liberties...
...myths" workers hold about a closed shop: time clocks, stricter relationships. But, she adds, "you don't invent reasons for people to join the union--the reasons are there and they're good ones." The process of convincing employees to sign up is, by Joannidi's description, an almost Marxist discovery of alienated self: "The turning point is when, from frustration from your work, you transform this feeling into a more positive feeling of, 'when we get together, we don't need to compete or mistrust each other...
...administrators and only 15 medical doctors for a population of 8.5 million people. Machel, 42, a onetime medical orderly who led the struggle for independence and became the country's first President, set about at breakneck pace to convert Mozambique into what he calls "Africa's first Marxist state." All land was nationalized. The large colonial plantations, which supported more than half of the population, were organized into collective farms. But, reports one visitor, "nobody can agree on how they are to be run, so production from the land is at a virtual standstill. While the bureaucrats argue...
...OCHS WROTE out of love, out of hope. One of his most beautiful songs was "That Was the President," a memorium to John Kennedy. In the liner notes he commented that his Marxist friends couldn't understand why he wrote it--in response he quoted Fidel Castro: "It is systems, not men, that are the enemy...