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...Chile. Church sources say that more than 1,000 political prisoners have been killed by the harsh rightist regime of General Augusto Pinochet since the 1973 overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende. Thousands more are still in jail. A strict curfew is in effect, critical foreign journalists are regularly barred from the country, and its own press is tightly muzzled...
...added that in testimony before the committee in February of 1976, he revealed that President John F. Kennedy '40 illegally funnelled millions of dollars through the Agency for International Development, the CIA, and various anticommunist Jesuit organizations to support Eduardo Frei's 1963 presidential campaign against Dr. Salvador Allende...
Neruda re-entered the political arena in 1969 to run on the C.P. ticket for president of Chile. He withdrew his nomination in favor of the Popular Unity Party candidate, his friend Salvador Allende. Allende's victory began Chile's revolution that would end so tragically three years later with the help of the Kissingers and Nixons. But while it lasted it represented to Neruda hope, decency and humanity...
Kissinger, who has never forgotten that 13 members of his family died in Nazi concentration camps, stressed the importance of human rights in Chile, as if to compensate for his earlier role in the "destabilization" of Salvador Allende. Those who sat with him in closed staff meetings describe "an intellectualized approach to moral values." The Secretary would argue, "Why berate our friends? We cannot choose our allies, we must make the best of them." He justified the use of secret means for what he believed to be higher moral ends, "not abstract principles but elements of national survival...
When scientists are described to newspaper readers as Nobel Laureates affiliated with a prestigious institution, their views are received as those of honored, impartial scientists. It is therefore essential for realistic evaluation of such views that readers know of the commercial connections of Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. Salvador Luria: both are listed as consultants in the brochure of Collaborative research, of Waltham, a company that manufactures products employed in the assay of restriction enzymes used in recombinant DNA research. Francine Robinson Simring, Chairman Committee for Genetics