Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than five weeks have passed since the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens was overthrown by Chile's military junta. Yet the bloodletting goes on. Last week 21 more Chileans were slain, 15 by firing squads and six in a battle with soldiers...
...Salvador Dali: "He wore a carnation behind his ear to take away the smell. He used to eat tins of sardines and put the oil on his hair...
...based multinational companies have long since written off as dead losses the Chilean operations that were expropriated by the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. But last week the new Chilean Foreign Minister, Ismael Huerta, announced at the U.N. that the military junta that overthrew Allende in a bloody coup last month has reopened negotiations with Anaconda and Kennecott with a view toward paying them something for those giant copper mines -Anaconda's Chuquicamata and Kennecott's El Teniente-that Allende expropriated. Some other members of the Chilean U.N. mission even dropped hints that Anaconda and Kennecott might actually...
...overthrow of Salvador Allende's Marxist government was not a defeat for democracy, but a victory over Communism...
...month since overthrowing Salvador Allende Gossens' Marxist government, the military junta has forcefully extended its tentacles of repression into every part of Chilean society. The left has been brutally sundered, many of its leaders tracked down and imprisoned or executed. All political parties have been suspended, and the country's eight universities, most of them traditional incubators of leftist sentiment, placed under the direct supervision of the military. By last week the junta's control was apparently complete, and all vestiges of organized opposition were smothered-at least temporarily...