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...seized by the police; 19 of them have not been seen since. Among the recent victims is a socialist named Sergio Zamora Torres. Seized and tortured for six hours, Zamora eventually managed to get the protection of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henriquez, head of Chile's increasingly oppositionist Roman Catholic Church. Zamora was examined by Silva's doctor and found to show burns on his arms, legs, genitals and nose, plus evidence of beating. With the help of the cardinal, he was able to get a safe-conduct pass out of the country, but at last word...
Significantly, Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
Getting other people in Saigon to talk was less easy. Correspondents Mohr and Jerrold Schecter had to resort to odd expedients in a capital caught up in a nasty war, where secret police crack down relentlessly on opponents and where fear is a feeling in the air. To one oppositionist source who dared not see them, they sent a messenger with questions typed on plain paper and got back typewritten answers with no signature...
...West in his approach to foreign relations and is known for his honesty and diligence at home. In his college days, he divided his time between medicine and politics, went on to become a provincial senator, vice governor of his home Córdoba province, and finally an oppositionist in Perón's Congress. In March 1962, he was elected governor of Córdoba province but lost his job when the elections were nullified...
...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...