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Moderate political leaders, meanwhile, grieved silently at the damage the violence on both sides was doing to their hopes for a transition to democracy. They were quick to denounce the assassination attempt. Said Enrique Silva Simma, president of the Democratic Alliance, an umbrella group of moderate parties: "We believe that acts of this kind neither contribute to pacifying the country nor help achieve democracy." Since 1983, when Pinochet loosened some of the restrictions on political activity, the moderates have been struggling to find a way of persuading the dictator to yield to a civilian electoral process. The latest plan...
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich. The umbrella under which the Center for Constructive Alternatives and the Shavano Institute for National Leadership operate. C.C.A. sponsors four seminars a year on various conservative topics. Shavano focuses on free-market economics and "traditional values." Although small, Shavano is influential. In May 1985 in Washington it sponsored a high- profile conference on "Moral Equivalence" at which Jeane Kirkpatrick gave the keynote talk...
...Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...
...contributing some weighty fare this summer, most notably American Masters, a 15-part series of profiles of some of the country's major creative artists. In the typical manner of PBS umbrella programming, the * individual shows have little in common. Two-thirds were made expressly for the series, presented by New York City's WNET; the rest were purchased from other sources (two of these American portraits were, in fact, made in Britain). They vary widely in style as well as quality. But together they provide a stimulating, season-long meditation on the elusive nature of creativity...
...ouster of Dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The work stoppage appeared to be one of the most effective antigovernment actions in the 13 years since Pinochet seized power. "The strike was a complete success, even beyond what we expected," said Juan Luis Gonzalez, who heads the Assembly of Civility, the umbrella group of 250 unions, student groups and civic organizations that joined to sponsor the strike...