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...report, for example, that at the notorious Sao Paulo torture center of the Brazilian political police, a torture session has been called a "spiritual seance," as if it involved a cleansing of impurities. Victims in Chile say that DINA interrogators refer to Santiago's infamous Villa Grimaldi as the Palacio de la Risa?the Palace of Laughter. In Iran, Otagh-e Tamshiyat, or "the room in which you make people walk," is a name for the blood-stained chamber where prisoners are forced to walk after torture to help their blood circulate...
...hour stopover in Peru, whose left-leaning military government espouses what it describes as "revolutionary socialist nationalism." Kissinger conferred for nearly an hour with Military Junta President General Francisco Morales Bermudez, gave a luncheon at the U.S. embassy, and attended a dinner in his honor at the Palacio Torre Tagle in Lima. His basic message: the U.S. does not object to Peru's pro-Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised the country as a relatively advanced society that still tends to support Third...
...different breed of generals, the leftists: President Francisco Morales Bermůdez of Peru received us the day after he had tidied up a considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts...
...Back in Havana that night, a friendly and relaxed Castro held a wide-open press conference in the book-lined library of the Palacio de la RevoluciÓn. At times he spoke so softly as to be barely audible, but his message was clear: Cuba is prepared to move immediately toward normalization of relations with the U.S. Nonetheless, he could not conceal his disappointment that Washington had not responded to his signing of the hijacking agreement with 'a reciprocal gesture' of its own. 'We wish friendship,' he declared with obvious sincerity. 'We belong...
...people want independence, we are willing to accept that." So said Portugal's Socialist Foreign Minister, Mario Soares, in an interview last week with TIME'S Martha de la Cal. Seated in an ornate salon of the 18th century Palacio das Necessidades (Palace of the Necessities), Soares discussed some problems that Portugal's military government faces in extricating itself from the country's African territories. Among his points...