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ANOTHER MAKEOVER FOR PINOCHET...
VALPARAISO, Chile: If you're a former dictator who is held responsible for thousands of deaths and disappearances, you ought to be careful what you wish for. Case in point: General Augusto Pinochet, who Wednesday took up the lifetime Senate seat he'd engineered for himself by rewriting the country's constitution -- and immediately got a taste of civilian politics. Opposition legislators taunted him with pictures of some of those murdered or "disappeared" under his regime, and there was a shout of "Assassin!" as he was sworn in. Novel experiences for a man whose opponents risked torture and death...
...record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough hypocrisy. DAVID KOS Salt Spring Island, British Columbia...
Nixon and Kissinger made no secret of their dislike of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Through economic pressure and CIA activities, this government was overthrown, and the right-wing dictator, Pinochet, was brought to power. Thousands of students, intellectuals, union organizers and, in general, people who tried to help the poor were arrested, tortured and killed. Watergate, which receives nearly all the publicity, is really a small incident in comparison to these events...
...Missing," Lemmon plays ED Horman, a conservative American businessman whose son, residing in Chile, disappears a few days after the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Horman travels to Chile and, along with his daughter-in-law, Beth (Sissy Spacek), tries to find out what happened...