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...THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the destruction of Chilean democracy and socialism approaches, we are violently reminded of the fact by the brutal assassinations last week in Washington of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to Washington and foreign minister under Allende, and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, a teacher and staff member of the Institute for Policy Studies, where Letelier also worked. The assassinations mark an important point in U.S. relations with the Third World. For the first time ever, a major leader of a Third World resistance movement has been murdered in the United States. For the first time in living memory, assassins...
...democratically elected Allende government in 1973 at the hands of the Chilean armed forces, but also for the consolidation and expansion of DINA, whose operations now appear to extend far beyond the borders of Chile. In view of the bloody murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, it is imperative and legitimate that the U.S. government totally sever all diplomatic and political relations with the Chilean junta; stop all U.S., World Bank and all other international forms of aid to the junta; and conduct an independent and thorough investigation by Congress--not the FBI--into the assassination itself...
...this end, it can be hoped that the tragic and violent deaths of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt will mark the beginning of the end of the Chilean junta and the diminishing of the American imperialism which created it three years ago and continues to nourish it to this...
...vote on the honors he better hope that Saturday's game is forgotten. Milner lasted only two periods, letting six of 19 shots go by him, and looked like he was competing in Mini One-On-One rather than a key ECAC contest. He was lifted for Ray Moffitt in the third...
Organized tennis then rarely encouraged competitors from the public courts, but little Miss Moffitt (her maiden name) shouldered her way through local and regional tournaments wearing a pair of homemade shorts, cussing herself on the court in most unladylike fashion and eating too much ice cream. When she was 16 she finally began private lessons; Alice Marble took her on as a protegee. Two years later, Billie Jean achieved instant recognition at Wimbledon by upsetting the top seed, Margaret Smith (later Mrs. Court...