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...hard to imagine what Harberger's loyalty to his friends will do to Harvard's relationship with the Chilean government: it will create one where none existed. Transcontinental phone calls will be placed on Harvard's account, travel vouchers will be issued for trips to Santiago, and high officials of the Chilean government will come to Harvard as honored guests of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Through the weekly, perhaps daily, exchanges between Cambridge and Santiago which Harberger's loyalty to his friends will require, Harvard and the junta will grow closer...
...during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
...also points out that he has expressed his disapproval of the political repression in private at numerous cocktail parties. But what about the people who weren't at the cocktail parties, the people who were imprisoned on Dawson's Island, the people who lay in the gutters of Santiago? He said he counseled at least 20 generals that they should give their power back to the people...
...Italian views were shared by Spain's Communists. Party Boss Santiago Carrillo, who is under attack from Stalinists in the ranks, issued no statement of his own, but an executive commission statement charged the invasion created "new dangers for world peace." Even the British Communists, who normally back Moscow's foreign policy down the line, openly questioned the Soviet rationale for invading Afghanistan. The assertion that Afghanistan's late President Hafizullah Amin had been an American agent, proclaimed the Morning Star, was simply "not credible...
Today a six-block stretch of Calle Ahumada in Santiago is one of South America's busiest commercial malls. Brightly painted signs pull shoppers into new boutiques stuffed with madras dresses from India, art supplies from Germany and motorcycles from Japan. The adjoining streets are jammed with honking hordes of shiny cars and trucks of every modern make. Workers are digging trenches for an extension of the Santiago subway. However, La Moneda palace, where Pinochet's predecessor, Marxist Salvador Allende, was killed in 1973, remains begrimed and run down...