Word: moffitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Hughes sliced through the UNH forwards at mid-ice and two Wildcat defensemen converged on Jack at the blue line. Jackie magnificently juked and deked, penetrated the offensive zone and slid the puck to brother George streaking onto the UNH net. A quick fake right drew goalie Greg Moffitt and George zinged his shot just inside the far post...
...first game the fat-bat Dodgers (with a team average of .261, second in the league) simply blew Blue out of the box and finished with 16 hits. In the second the Giants lost by only one run when Billie Jean King's kid brother, Randy Moffitt, relieving with the bases loaded, walked Los Angeles Centerfielder Bill North to give the Dodgers the league lead for the first time since May. Then the Giants fought back, winning a one-run game with a home run from Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average...
...Moffitt has toured the country, talking to different groups to try to put pressure on the U.S. government to solve the "murders" of his wife and Letelier. In addition, he and Isabel Letelier published a report last month through the Transnational Institute, an adjunct of IPS, detailing the "relationship between foreign economic assistance, private capital flows and the state of human rights in Chile since September 11, 1973, when the military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende." One of the purposes of the report is to air "the conflicts between...
...Moffitt explains that if Pinochet had to answer to President Carter, he would not have outlawed the PDC in March of 1977. Instead, the report states, the same month the party was outlawed, U.S. banks loaned him $51 million. In January, 1978, Pinochet exiled 12 Christian Democrats for participating in illegal political activities and the same month, the report indicates, "the bank consortium headed by Wells Fargo lent the government $125 million and Exxon purchased approximately $100 million worth of shares of the La Disputada (copper) mines...
...same time Rep. Thomas R. Harkin (D-Iowa) is drawing up legislation to force disclosure of private bank loans to governments the U.S. Congress has tagged as human rights violators, and is exploring a way to bring private policies more in conformity with public policies through legislation. Moffitt and Isabel Letelier also sent letters to the heads of all the banks loaning money to Chile saying, "We don't think it's appropriate for banks which are based and chartered through the U.S. to be lending to the Pinochet government at the same time as leading members of his government...