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After a remote-control bomb killed Chilean exile leader Orlando Letelier and an American aide as they drove through Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, U.S. officials charged that henchmen of Chile's then ruling General Augusto Pinochet had plotted the murders. Four men indicted for the slayings escaped capture or were untouchable in Chile...
...outraged. We're inviting a death squad president--a president with blood of the Salvadoran people on his hands--to speak here," said Margaret L. Lilienthal '88 of the rumor that Cristiani was supposed to appear at Harvard. "He is not a democrat or a moderate if he thinks Pinochet's Chile is a model of the perfect society...
Discussing a range of topics, from the "constipation" of the American political system to Chilean opposition to Pinochet, the six fellows displayed faith in the political system and a positive outlook for the future...
Chile's long democratic tradition was finally back on track last week after a 16-year hiatus. In the first presidential election since the bloody 1973 coup that ousted Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens and brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to power, voters elected Patricio Aylwin, 71, a Christian Democrat. As soon as Aylwin's victory seemed assured, thousands of citizens poured into the streets in jubilant celebration. Said Aylwin: "Chile has again taken destiny into its own hands...
...former Senator who ran as head of a 17-party center-left coalition, Aylwin received 55.2% of the vote, easily defeating both a right-wing candidate backed by Pinochet and a populist businessman. Pinochet, whose attempt to retain power was rebuffed last year in a national plebiscite, is scheduled to step down March 11. But by staying on as Commander in Chief of the army for at least eight years, he will keep a hand on the reins...