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...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...
...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...
Last week's developments left Washington policymakers in a classic dilemma between violence of the far left and violence of the far right. The State Department condemned the attack on Pinochet and hoped the "terrorists will be found and prosecuted in accordance with Chilean law." At the same time, the Administration expressed its concern at the new state of siege, asserting that "such extreme measures hinder the development of the process of dialogue and consensus building...
...past several months, the Administration has been prodding the military government to make a credible move toward real democracy. Led by Ambassador Harry Barnes, a respected veteran diplomat, U.S. officials have been trying to convince Pinochet that his repressive policies only create new recruits for the armed left. Said one senior State Department official: "The best defense against extremism of left or right is support for democracy." Barnes has sought contact with the opposition and in July attended the funeral of a teenager killed during earlier demonstrations. Washington has now threatened to vote against any new multinational loans for economically...