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...doubt the boss will be in a mood to attend." GENERAL GUILLERMO GARIN, spokesman for General Augusto Pinochet, on the former Chilean dictator's cancellation of a luncheon celebrating his 90th birthday, after he was indicted on human-rights charges and placed under house arrest
...torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories of international treaties. Sands cited as precedent the detention of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1999 and a U.S. lawsuit in the aftermath of World War II which convicted individuals for participating “in governmentally organized systems of cruelty.” One key and controversial legal advisor to the Bush administration—now on the Harvard Law faculty?...
Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
...Administration's attentiveness to abuses in friendly regimes was underscored last week when it presented a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva condemning violent acts of repression by Augusto Pinochet's military junta in Chile. It was the Administration's strongest stand to date against the regime, which came to power 13 years ago. The same day, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker implied that the U.S. favored black "majority rule" in South Africa and called guerrillas in the African National Congress "freedom fighters," a term Reagan has used only for anti-Communist insurgents. But when Crocker...
...profound change in the region's prospects. But that requires dispensing with the Cold War mentality that puts the outcome above the process, i.e. better a pro-U.S. autocrat than a democratically elected socialist (or, these days, Islamist). Henry Kissinger once justified U.S. support for the Pinochet coup in Chile by saying "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." If a similar attitude prevails in Washington if Arab electorates choose Islamists to lead them, the current moment of democratic hope will come...