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Esmeralda Santiago, a senior in Dudley, said, "If you ever need a favor, he will do it for you. He makes himself more available than any other master...
Britain last week recalled its Ambassador to Chile - for an unusual reason: Chilean maltreatment of a British citizen. The citizen was Sheila Cassidy, 37, a surgeon who worked at an emergency clinic in a working-class area of Santiago. Dr. Cassidy had been summoned by a Roman Catholic priest to treat a leftist political fugitive for gun shot wounds in October. She was arrested in November and finally released last week. Upon landing in London, she declared that after her arrest she was stripped by Chilean police, subjected to electric-shock torture and spent 2½ weeks in solitary confinement...
Tense Face-off. 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...
...government has tried to avoid a fight with the Roman Catholic Church, to which 84% of Chileans belong. Last April, Pinochet privately assured Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, the Archbish op of Santiago, that "things would improve." A conference of the country's bishops agreed to say nothing about the torture of political dissidents. Things seemed to improve somewhat. Political arrests in Santiago decreased from 100 in March to 80 in April. But by August, the monthly arrest figure was up to 141; by September, it stood at 205. The bishops were particularly disturbed by the mounting evidence that Pinochet...
...Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds in Gutierez's leg. Another priest, Fernando Salas, later smuggled Gutierez and a guerrilla companion, Maria Elena Bachman, into the embassy of the Holy See. Wheelan and Maroto were arrested along with Cassidy; Salas and another priest gave themselves...