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...Yohji Yamamoto suit amid the third-rate chaos swirling around him. That's how most Japanese want to see themselves. Their nation has become an economic and political farce. Feckless, forgettable Prime Ministers come and go. The moribund economy has come to resemble more the surreal vision of Salvador Dali than the sound blueprint of Adam Smith. And for the first time since World War II, the average Japanese faces the prospect of a diminishing standard of living. It's third-rate chaos, alright, and all you want to do if you're young and cool and Japanese and know...
...Salvador...
Santiago Chile?s armed forces admitted for the first time in 27 years that they executed about 150 political dissidents after General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew Salvador Allende Gossens? Marxist government in 1973, and then dumped the bodies into the Pacific Ocean, lakes and rivers. They also acknowledged that another 50 people were buried in clandestine graves throughout the country. The armed forces agreed in mid-1999 to produce information on the fate of more than 1,000 ?detained-disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted...
...YESICA DEL CARMEN BERRIOS, coffee picker, reacting to the killer earthquake that struck El Salvador...
...When Pinochet launched his 1973 coup, he did it with the active support and encouragement of the U.S. government, who saw the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende as a dire threat to its Cold War regional interests. The Clinton administration has forced the keepers of the nation's secrets to shine some light on the relationship between Washington and Pinochet, and what has emerged through four tranches of document declassification is an unflattering picture of U.S. collusion with a regime that systematically undermined the constitution of Latin America's oldest democracy, and brutalized its citizenry. And what...