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...value, both countries heatedly denounced the boundary. For years objections flew back and forth, but it was all fairly harmless until 1963, when Argentine gendarmes suddenly strung up a barbed-wire fence where they thought the border should be. The Chileans reacted with predictable enthusiasm. The Argentine embassy in Santiago was stoned, Argentine flags were burned, and the national police went on full alert. There was even talk of war, but cooler heads prevailed, and once again voices on both sides called for another round of British arbitration...
...since 1960, when they met at Oxford University for a symposium discussing the problems of underdeveloped countries. Lately the camaraderie has revolved around copper, featuring quiet exchanges of missions across the Atlantic on the possibilities of cooperating, rather than competing, in the metal. Last week Kaunda himself flew to Santiago. At the end of two days of talks, the presidential pair announced heady plans for a copper cartel designed to control the free world market...
...Bataan's defense, Marcos was captured by the Japanese and began the infamous Death March half dead already. He was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell, where Filipinos and Americans died at the rate of 300 a day. There, he says, "I learned to hate." At Manila's Fort Santiago, where the Japanese Kempei Tai (secret service) tortured him in the hope that he would reveal the whereabouts of Filipino guerrilla groups, Marcos refused to talk. The Japanese pumped him full of water and jumped on his stomach. After eight days of "the water cure," he agreed to lead a patrol...
...life in Chile. Amid charges of white slavery and dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No sooner had the order been issued than the madams of Santiago descended on the presidential palace in a mass-protest demonstration. They informed Under Secretary of the Interior Juan Hamilton that unless the ban was removed, they would organize into a sort of body politic to oppose the government at every turn. Furthermore, they pointed out, the closing of the houses...
...guns." A year ago, this was not the case. The "constitutionalist" revolution of April, 1965 gave the Dominican people their first, and perhaps their last, chance to break out of the political prison constructed for them by Trujillo and his heirs. The urban populace--in Santo Domingo and Santiago and San Francisco--armed itself, split and then defeated the military, and came within hours of constructing a new ruling coalition: liberal lawyers and professors, progressive businessmen, small peasants, students, and workers...