Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of people, following Colby's lecture, had some queries about other matters the well-spoken bespectacled bureaucrat was involved in. Most wondered about Colby's justification for knowing about the coup that overthrew the elected, leftwing Chilean government in 1973, and not informing then-President Salvador Allende about...
BESIDES APPEALING to a new popular constituency, the paper hopes to embrace the already existing socialist tradition in this country. In These Times lists 39 sponsors representing a wide range of views. They include Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Barry Commoner, Daniel Ellsberg, Salvador Luria, Herbert Marcuse, and Paul Sweezy '31. Many of the sponsors will also write for the paper...
...hate list of Chile's right-wing military government. Letelier had been one of Chile's most prominent citizens-in-exile. An economist, a lawyer and a committed Socialist, he was sent to Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning to Washington as an economist at the Institute for Policy Studies...
...Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within 48 hours, and they did, with U.N. help. The Argentine government's disclaimers of responsibility sounded somewhat hollow. The lengthy caravan had passed through downtown Buenos Aires and one of the U.N. hotels was less than a block from...
Recently, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley invited supporters attending the tenth annual conference of his central Kingston constituency to study closely a film called The Rise and Fall of the CIA, a British-made documentary about alleged agency operations in Laos, Viet Nam and Salvador Allende's Chile. "I cannot prove in a court of law that the CIA is here," Manley told his audience. "What I have said is that certain strange things are happening in Jamaica which we have not seen before...