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Rescue efforts were further slowed last Friday when the country was whiplashed by an afterquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale. Both quakes also rocked neighboring Honduras, El Salvador and parts of Mexico, but no deaths were reported there...
...long succession of Diego Velásquez's court portraits. This one was painted late in the monarch's life, around 1653. The King's features-the bulbed Habsburg lip, the forehead's waxy promontory, the thick ball of a chin, the upswept mustache that Salvador Dali would appropriate and vulgarize-must have been more familiar to Velásquez than the map of Spain itself (see color overleaf...
...week's end Cuban-led M.P.L.A. troops had pushed the F.N.L.A. to within 50 miles of the Zaïre border. It was apparently only a matter of time before Roberto's army lost control of Santo António do Zaïre, São Salvador and Maquela do Zombo-the last three major towns still in F.N.L.A. hands...
...Apart from the diplomatic confrontation between London and Santiago, the case of Dr. Cassidy highlighted one of the central dramas in Chile today: a tense face-off between church and state over the is sues of human rights and torture. In the months since the military coup that toppled Salvador Allende, the country's Christian leaders have emerged as the principal opposition to the repressive measures imposed by President Augusto Pinochet and his junta. As a result, priests, nuns and Christian laymen have become the objects of roundups by DINA, the dreaded Chilean secret police...
...Intelligence set out to investigate "numerous allegations made about U.S. covert activity in Chile during 1970-73." In a report issued last week, the committee claims to have shown that allegations holding the U.S. largely responsible for the overthrow in 1973 of the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende are false, or at best half true. In fact, the Church Committee's conclusions themselves rest on a series of half-truths and omissions...