Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SHORTLY BEFORE the Chilean army burst into Santiago's Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973 and overthrew the popularly-elected left-wing government, President Salvadore Allende spoke on national radio to the workers and peasants who supported him. "Workers of my country," he said, "I have faith in Chile and her destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seems to dominate. You must never forget that sooner or later grand avenues will be opened where free men will march on to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live...
...both Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago, and the filmmakers' choice is not surprising. A moving testimonial to Allende's faith in Chile and her people, the speech marks the end of an unforgettable episode--three years during which a peacefully-elected government implemented left-wing reforms, three years during which Chile struggled against the crippling American economic and political intervention that finally led to a brutally repressive junta...
...major contenders has enticed voters with an attractive image. Labor, headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad-the issue that forced Rabin to step down last month. Last week all campaigning was halted as the country mourned for 54 soldiers who were killed when their helicopter...
...rebels are not the only ones who oppose Mengistu's rule. Just south of Eritrea, 1,500 guerrillas of the Tigre People's Liberation Front (T.P.L.F.) control about one-third of Tigre province. In the western provinces of Goijam and Gondar, 2,000 men of the right-wing Ethiopian Democratic Union (E.D.U.) are fighting for a non-Marxist civilian government and deny charges that they plan to restore a monarchy under Haile Selassie's sole surviving son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 60, who is now in London. About 1,000 shiftas-armed nomads of the Western Somali...
These legal and legislative triumphs are only partly attributable to intensive propaganda by such Laetrile advocates as the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy and other right-wing organizations that employ films, pamphlets and evangelizing visits to cancer victims to promote Laetrile. More important is the fact that although doctors can often cure the disease - if it is caught early enough - the battle against cancer has been agonizingly slow. All too often, treatments are extremely expensive (the median cost of a cancer case was calculated in a 1973 study at $19,000), physically painful and, when surgery...