Word: salvador
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Making Augusto Pinochet Ugarte a member of Chile's Senate [NOTEBOOK, March 23] is a cheap price to pay for the future complete normalization of Chilean democracy. In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected President, not by the people but by the Senate. Allende was a Marxist-Leninist, but presumably he believed that democracy was the preferred means for political and social change. Still, under Allende, there were severe violations of human rights, and political dissidents were put in jail simply for speaking the truth. Very few have the moral right to judge the Chilean transition process, and some observers...
...lost in a rising sea of angst, captured in a 1983 made-for-TV movie, The Day After, that dramatized the clinical horrors of a nuclear exchange. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. had broken off all arms-control negotiations and were arming rival sides in shooting wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (whose anticommunist guerrillas would play a central role in the great Iran-contra scandal of the Reagan years...
...appreciate greatly that not once was the word obscene mentioned in your article. Epithet too easily used which assailed unanimously the appearance of "Interpretation of Dreams" by Freud, psychologic document which is and always will remain in spite of all the most important and sensational of our epoch. SALVADOR DALI Carmel, Calif...
Certainly I agree with you that we must preserve a sense of proportion and not panic over the spread of AIDS. After all, American aid has caused far more deaths in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and no remedy has yet been found for this disease, in spite of efforts in Congress. GRAHAM GREENE Antibes, France...
...photographed violence and war close up from El Salvador to Chechnya, but one of my nearest brushes with death came in South Africa during Nelson Mandela's 1994 presidential campaign. A large convoy of militant, ultra-right-wing Afrikaners had invaded the tribal homeland of Bophuthatswana to prop up the last vestiges of minority rule. Two colleagues and I were approaching a convoy of Afrikaners shooting at civilians when our car was fired on. We drove away--only to run into a fire fight between the Afrikaners and the Bophuthatswana army. We took cover behind our car. About 30 yards...