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...private businesses? Why do Germans seem so hungry and pushy, and why do the Japanese lose their politeness when they leave their country? Why do the Soviets practice so much birth control and the South Americans so little? Why did so few people survive the 11th century pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in Spain...
...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
Meanwhile, top priority for British antisubmarine aircraft and frigates last week was to locate Argentina's diesel-powered Santiago del Estero. The World War II sub, built by the U.S., has a 12,000-mile range and poses an unnerving threat to the liners Canberra...
...death of the American, Charles Horman, is fact, certainly. A bright, left-leaning freelance writer and documentary film maker, Horman, together with his wife Joyce, moved to Santiago, Chile, in 1972, eager to watch the development of the new Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende. Horman was visiting the seaside resort of Vina del Mar with another American woman, Terry Simon, when Allende was overthrown by a military coup on Sept. 11,1973. According to a journal they kept at the time, Horman and Simon saw and spoke to several U.S. military officials in Vina who strongly hinted that...
...Information Act, which require some explanation. One, a cable from Davis to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is dated Oct. 4, 1973, and recounts neighbors' descriptions of Charles' arrest and an eyewitness's report of his detention by the military. Yet when Edmund Horman arrived in Santiago on Oct. 5, he was told by the U.S. Ambassador that his son was probably in hiding. Other documents raise similar puzzles...