Word: pinochets
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...Pinochet's constitution wins big, but starts small
...country, and despite a muted chorus of dissent, the issue was never really in doubt. Last week, in a national plebiscite held seven years to the day after the violent overthrow of their last freely elected government, Chile's voters roundly endorsed the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The vote ratified a new constitution that gives Pinochet, 64, at least eight more years as "transitional" President-and suggests the full rebirth of direct democracy only in 1997. As the returns trickled in, tens of thousands of jubilant demonstrators gathered outside the presidential headquarters in Santiago, waving banners...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
Indecisiveness also characterized two other votes of the Corporation. It faced a proxy calling on Atlantic Richfield Company to halt its expansion in Chile until the Pinochet government loosens its restrictions on civil rights, and another committing Occidental Petroleum--the parent company of the polluter of the Love Canal--to establish a policy for responsible disposal of chemical waste. With the ACSR backing the two resolutions, the Corporation was once again caught between its reluctance to oppose management and its desire not to counter the urgings of the ACSR. Again, it abstained...
...Some people would say cutting off investments in Chile would only make Pinochet more intransigent. Instead, he would turn to other countries for aid," she added...