Word: valdivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolivia, where he seemed to lead a checkered existence. At one stage, Farago had him visiting "prurient nightclubs"; at another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close to the Argentine border, and turned it into an armed fortress, complete with antiaircraft gun. From this stronghold, wrote Farago, Bormann regained control of his funds in Argentina and began to build a business empire with Mafia-type takeovers of legitimate businesses. Among...
...judgment on Tohá. Under the Chilean constitution, a Cabinet officer faced with impeachment proceedings is automatically suspended from his post. Furious, Allende challenged the Chamber by making Tohá the acting Defense Minister and giving his old portfolio to Defense Minister Alejandro Ríos Valdivia, a moderate leftist. The opposition immediately complained that Allende was illegally circumventing the constitution...
...head of government. Obviously well-coached about the problems that Allende's government is having with falling production, rising absenteeism and soaring wage demands at Chile's newly nationalized mines, Castro vigorously railed against troublemaking "demagogues" and "reactionaries" during a speech at a mine in Pedro de Valdivia. At Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper operation, he launched into a lecture on productivity. He thundered that "a hundred tons less per day means a loss of $36 mil lion a year...
...Vice President Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, the killers were identified as members of the extreme leftist Organized Vanguard of the People. But Communist and Socialist politicians, as well as several pro-government newspapers, accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of being behind the murder. Defense Minister Alejandro Rios Valdivia did not specifically blame the CIA, but he told the Chilean Senate that "hidden interests far beyond our borders . . . who are being harmed through revolutionary changes" were the real culprits. The Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens, while staunchly maintaining that it had never accused the U.S. of wrongdoing, refused...
...well as old marrieds anxious for a night away from the kids or the in-laws; Santiago has a housing shortage, and few apartments allow much privacy. But 90% of the patrons are young, single Chileans, for whom a bachelor flat is an impossible luxury. For them, only the Valdivia and less elegant places like it afford an indoor liaison...