Word: pinochets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Befitting his VIP status, Swaggart moves in lofty circles when he is abroad. In El Salvador, he met with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who has confessed that he too watches the Swaggart TV show. In Chile, he met Dictator Augusto Pinochet and later urged his audience in Santiago to "pray for General Pinochet and his beautiful wife." Swaggart usually avoids overt politicking in his Latin American sermons and disclaims partisanship. But the Rev. Jaime Wright, a U.S. Presbyterian working in Brazil, agreeing with Roman Catholic critics, charges that Swaggart and like-minded Evangelicals are giving "uncritical support" to oppressive right...
...onetime Chilean army captain last week confessed to taking part in a murder, but he also suggested that Chilean President Augusto Pinochet may have been involved. On Sept. 21, 1976, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier, a Pinochet foe, was killed in Washington when a bomb exploded under...
...almost nine years, the U.S. sought to extradite three Chilean secret- police officers believed to be involved in the crime. The Pinochet regime refused to cooperate, but last week one of the officers, Armando Fernandez Larios, claiming his conscience troubled him, admitted he had helped the Chileans find Letelier...
...Chilean government contends this man is a terrorist, and has arrested the physicians for cooperating with him. They have also tried to link the physicians with the assassination attempt on President Pinochet in September...
...wake of the assassination attempt, the imperious Pinochet, certain of his support in the 57,000-man army, staged a grand popular gala in honor of his continued tenure. In full-page newspaper ads the general dubbed the long- planned celebration, seen as a kickoff of his campaign for the presidency in 1989, "The First Day of the Future." Under the 1980 constitution drawn up by Pinochet, Chile's four-man military junta will choose a single presidential candidate, who will then run in a yes-or-no national plebiscite and, if the electorate endorses him, serve until 1997. Three...