Word: pinochets
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Mobuto is a staunch ally of the United States. Much like Marcos in the Philipines, Noriega in Panama, Pinochet in Chile and the leaders of many other banana republics, Mobuta has been an S.O.B., but he's been our S.O.B. Loyal to a fault, he has kept communism from becoming a force in Black Africa's second largest country...
...indeed of metaphysics, in the sparsely populated badlands of the Southwest. But Hillerman's latest is something of a departure. Much of Talking God takes place in official Washington; its characters include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove...
...main market. Two Chilean officials came to Washington on Wednesday to beg Secretary of State James Baker to reconsider the ban. In Chile hundreds of workers demonstrated. Trucks loaded with free fruit wound through the streets. Autos sprouted signs bearing the message MY FAMILY EATS CHILEAN FRUIT. President Augusto Pinochet, in full military uniform, popped a few seedless white grapes into his mouth for television cameras...
Despite the fact that terrorism by its nature is irrational, efforts were made to explain why the grapes had been poisoned. To some Chileans, culprits abounded: it was American fruit growers, acting to sabotage Chile's inroads into the U.S. market. It was the U.S. Government, pressuring Pinochet to turn over the military men accused of ordering the 1976 murder of ex-Ambassador to Washington Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington. It was the caller in Chile who identified himself as an Israeli ultra-nationalist protesting the U.S.-P.L.O. talks. For someone merely interested in having strawberries on his cornflakes...
Stroessner, who provided asylum for some of the most reviled figures in modern times, such as Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, is expected to live out his exile, possibly in Chile. There he would be the guest of Augusto Pinochet, now the very last of Latin America's old-style dictators, who himself faces political extinction following presidential elections scheduled for December...