CHILE: TERROR BY COMPUTER:
MacEoin, Gary
CHILE: TERROR BY COMPUTER GARY MacEOIN A systematic...
...The news media have the military regime, with stress on discipline, cleanliness, reported many hundreds of people killed "while attempt- obedience and wearing of school uniforms...
...The School of Public Health, one of the This New York group last month sent two members, most prestigious in Latin America, has lost 70 of its Martin Garbus and Ira M. Lowe, to report on the first 120 staff members...
...The No eater of leaves...
...The pound of stewing beef which MIEC in Lima, Peru...
...What is most hold these trials in a military court and cannot charge remarkable is the change within the hierarchy...
...seems to have made no serious efforts to protect the This report confirms the charges published in January American citizens present in Chile during and after the by Amnesty International's mission, which included two military takeover...
...Methods of torture include "electric shock run by Holy Cross priests, is the gymnastics teacher...
...The computer Chile not to return home...
...coupled with heavy indoctrination designed to glorify The use of torture continues...
...Of green trees...
...tion minister is an admiral whose specialization is comVarious sources informed the Chicago Commission bat communications, torpedoes and sonar...
...The basic understanding was that the socialist plore, letting them write their own tickets...
...Where did the Chilean investigators get the informa-, Joel Gajardo typifies the process...
...Professor Kurt the Junta...
...Venezuela and West Germany...
...the markets and the industrial base of the global com- They stretch their glossy necks panies headquartered in the United States, the EEC In the tallest branches and Japan, by providing cheap labor and raw materials...
...The new Venezuelan in bourgeois revisionism...
...with more `conventional' brute methods-beating with Confirming many earlier reports, the Chicago Comgun butts, knife slashing, cigarette burns, sexual molesta- mission found that "the embassy of the United States tion and rape...
...Here the future was already anticipated in January with a credit from Brazil to buy medical supplies and a But the crows puff their feathers and cry hundred fire engines...
...deed for Chile, must be sought in the context of the The decision of the British Labor Government to sus- world economic order now coming into existence...
...The Nixon-Kissinger world order, nevertheprogress to the oligarchy and the global companies...
...simply continued surveillance...
...She had flown from a third has caught up with him...
...This pend aid came as a hard blow for the Junta, and the was a major subject of discussion at a seminar recently hostile campaign in the Scandinavian countries continues held in Amsterdam under the auspices of the Transfull throttle...
...the technology for new leaps forward, technology which Here the experience of Brazil may be significant...
...technology and its advanced products in return for raw General Pinochet was more realistic when he answered materials from the Soviet bloc and China, raw materials their call for more democracy by saying there was no now desperately needed...
...Lens of attention...
...At the past decade to democratize the system quickly rethe top is the United States surrounded by the advanced vealed such discontent that the lid of repression had to nations which participate in its hegemony...
...health workers...
...Some months by killing or exile the entire intellectual leadership of back, all Chileans who had spent three months or more all progressive forces in Chile, thus facilitating longin Cuba at any time were rounded up...
...And after some considerable negotiating, the sity of Pennsylvania, former Assistant Secretary of State accumulated debts were renegotiated, easing immediate for Latin America...
...was "carried out systematically by some of those re- The reason for this development, which bodes ill insponsible for interrogation...
...It exchanges information on Third he bought with the labor of 150 minutes in the 1960s World problems to help promote "a world of justice, and of 57 minutes under Allende has rocketed altogether participation and liberty...
...The Chicago Report estimated it at 20 percent...
...Ambassador David H. Popper's concern Estimates of executions vary wildly...
...26 July 1974: 402...
...Representing a broad spectrum of political views student refused entry to Brazil...
...The political police there and religious beliefs, it was both thorough and scientific had a full list of students, of whom he was one, who in its work...
...Concern in the United States is focusing on violations The visit to the private doctor has become necessary of human rights and international law, with ad-hoc in emergency because of a sharp cut-back in free health groups sprouting across the country, from the Fair Trial facilities...
...A third (6000) of the doctors and nurses have Committee for Chilean Political Prisoners in Corvallis, been fired, and 40 percent (18,000) of other public Oregon, to Lawyers Committee on Chile in New York...
...the Junta has few backers...
...He returned almost immediately, convinced that One Chilean lady was recently warned by friends in he should continue to give leadership...
...A prominent member tion about everyone who travels anywhere in the world, of Christians for Socialism headed by Jesuit Gonzalo a bank into which the political police of "friendly coun- Arroyo, he escaped from Chile after Allende's overtries" can plug...
...It said that political prisoners had sending him to the local police and to his death...
...I am Their output is in turn exported to the third tier of Entering the kingdom...
...be settling into what may be called the computer phase...
...Polish leaders in the Katyn Forest in 1941...
...Unemployment, it said, was down to five percent, and falling...
...The emerging picture is that of a plan to eliminate The computer establishes categories...
...Meanwhile, advances in the Russian and Chinese spheres were ir- it has to take the copper companies back on face-saving reversible, but neither Russia nor China would promote terms, but always on the understanding that the sophistheir expansionism in the West, just as the United ticated processing will continue to be done outside States and its allies would refrain from making mischief Chile...
...CHILE: TERROR BY COMPUTER GARY MacEOIN A systematic elimination of progressive leaders is underway Killings with and without the benefit of court-martial attended a Lutheran youth conference in Germany continue in Chile nine months after the overthrow of judged seditious by the Brazilians...
...and is bread daily (5850 E.), a blouse for his wife (3000 E.), fed by church-related centers in various countries, inshoes for a child (3000 E.) and make one visit to a cluding IDOC in Rome, CENCOS in Mexico City and doctor (4000 E...
...This figure was simply unbelievable in the light of the wholesale dismissals...
...In sycophantic terms, it defended every action Camps...
...out of his orbit...
...client states" in return for their raw materials, mineral and agricultural, thus escaping from Henry Ford's dilem- The dream of my life ma of having to pay his workers enough to enable them Is to lie down by a slow river to buy his cars...
...One major worry of the Junta is the persistence of a Elitism negative image all round the world...
...In addi- of all are the Christian Democrats who think they can tion, they are offered attractive new markets for their reverse history and go back to a pre-Allende situation...
...It refused to aid Charles Horman, California lawyers...
...Eugene McCarthy to people like Andre Gunder Franck It condemned the Junta and called for the withdrawal who regard the Communist Party as having mired down of the ambassador in Santiago...
...When his father lende regime were estimated at 160,000, plus an un- presented evidence that he was tortured and killed in known number retired prematurely, forfeiting social the Santiago studim, Consul Frederick Purdy (elsewhere security and retirement benefits...
...Teruggi might present the embassy in a Justice Max Silva told the Chicago Commission that bad light when he returned to the United States...
...Also in The earlier document came from the standing comChile at that time was a 6-woman delegation of the mittee of the bishops and was signed by Bishop Carlos Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Oviedo Cavada, secretary general of the bishops' con(Philadelphia), headed by Vice-President Katherine ference...
...their systems, have proved incapable of generating...
...sympathies...
...The economy now proposed for Chile level, the subimperial states of Brazil, Indonesia, South calls for the exclusion of four million Chileans from the Africa, the Philippines and Iran...
...Brazil's tradition was much less democratic than that of Within the West, a 3-tier system of exploitation is Chile, and the sector of the population which lived emerging, one so highly organized and efficiently policed outside the money economy and the political system that the possibility of breaking out of it without massive was far bigger...
...Several hundred are from United States bus to and from work (2160 E.), buy 31/z pounds of sources...
...Proceedings in Elitism has also been restored to the education system, the military courts are arbitrary and capricious, it said...
...The Commission identifies Silva as one of several States and Britain did...
...Madlener of the Max Planck Institute, Freibourg, Ger- The economic blockade was, of course, ended immany...
...As their plane had President Allende, but the counterrevolution seems to not touched Brazil, a central source is again indicated...
...Later came the term control of a leaderless proletariat...
...The new that United States and Brazilian torture equipment was head of St...
...Chileans have a tradition of political activity and For the United States and the European "haves," the involvement, and few of them seem yet to realize that benefits are obvious...
...Coination of which was a main goal of the Allende regime, DoC (Cooperation in Documentation and Communicais proceeding rapidly...
...Yet even in Brazil, each attempt during Russian or Chinese support (now denied) is remote...
...Chile in February has provided confirmation of this Another verified recent case is that of an Argentine trend...
...The Venezuelan Senate recently approved social change, ranging on the political spectrum from a motion supported by senators of varied political hues...
...CoDoC is located in Washington, D.C...
...itinerary had been flashed back to the Chilean police The Chicago Commission of Inquiry which visited who meanwhile had arrested her husband...
...It is a repetition group who had been two months in Cuba, and after but on a vastly bigger scale of the Russian slaughter of that those who had spent one month there...
...applied to various sensitive parts of the body, fingernail Twenty percent of all Education Ministry employees extraction, shooting off guns next to the ear-along have been fired...
...England, France, Holland, Italy, Norway, Germany, As for Latin America, Mexico has withdrawn its Sweden, Spain, Algeria and Pakistan...
...For North Americans pursuing their lawful concerns Every Chilean with any record of political activity is such stories of the thousand-eyed Big Daddy are disbeing dossiered and evaluated, a process that may end turbing...
...George's, a progressive high school formerly being used...
...Similarly disconcerting for the Junta has been the unenthusiastic response of the global corporations and the international financial community...
...In their recent statement, the bishops say these dismissals are continuing and they deplore the high unemployment...
...them still held in January...
...Garbus said on returning gigantic Communist plot has been weakened still further that they believe that the Junta "cannot constitutionally by the statement of the Chilean bishops...
...It gave been tortured on a large scale, with the help of foreign asylum to nobody...
...The election of a rightist The sixty participants included six Chileans who had President in France is some small solace, but the been active in the Allende coalition, several Brazilians strength of the Left ensures that France will not switch and Argentines, six from the United States, others from sides...
...For Chileans, the international espionage sysin death, imprisonment, exile, permanent exclusion from tem means not only violation of elementary human rights employment, loss of pension and other social rights, or but the possibility of torture leading to death or exile...
...He inside the United States on domestic flights, and her is in Argentina at the time of writing...
...Lines of credit to finance current imports mid-May charged that political prisoners were still being were re-established by United States banks...
...It is colonial because it MARY OLIVER depends "on the West in general and on the United States in particular, due to its need for foreign assistance ENTERING THE KINGDOM and foreign markets...
...of the Junta, insisting that it was promoting "true social The International Commission of Jurists, which speaks progress," that it had created "a civic order which perfor lawyers of almost all countries of the world outside mitted the normal functioning of all the activities of the the socialist orbit, has issued a preliminary report which citizens," and that there was overwhelming approval of is extremely harsh...
...Those seeking refuge in the United "experts...
...It compiled a list of over Commonweal: 399 250 detainees who had "disappeared...
...Amnesty called for an international tribunal States are still being rejected if judged to have leftist of enquiry into the torture charges...
...By holding wages down while tion) has published a catalog of more than a thousand letting prices rise, the workers are being squeezed back bibliographical entries from primary sources in 24 counto the margin of the economy...
...The function of the subimperial states is to extend The crows see me...
...Between me and the sun, To pay for these industrial imports, Chile has prac- And I should go now...
...Gajardo is one tion, since many of the victims had not traveled directly of Latin America's leading Protestant theologians, long from Chile...
...A typical worker's wage tries documenting the "international repudiation of the of 18,000 escudos a month enables him to take the Chilean Junta...
...Vice Minister of was that Mr...
...These were the 1P groups whose promotion of the economic blockade played a decisive part in destroying Allende...
...public trials of Allende's aides, trials suspended after 26 July 1974: 400 some days of hearings...
...and Professor Covey T. Oliver, of the Univer- mediately...
...less, provides no alternatives...
...at a second be clamped on...
...The Commission estimates 80,000 people were deGARY MaCEOIN is the author most recently of No Peaceful Way: tained in a 6-month period, with more than 18,000 of The Chilean Struggle for Dignity (Sheed & Ward...
...Italy still withholds diplomatic recognition, national Institute, a European affiliate of the Washingand elsewhere in the European Economic Community ton-based Institute for Policy Studies...
...One conservative businessman conducts to leave Chile...
...in secret while the "show" trial was going on...
...No concerted effort was ever made to find Dismissals of those believed sympathetic to the Al- out what happened to Frank Teruggi...
...And stare at the light in the treesChile, with a population of a mere ten million, and To learn something by being nothing lacking natural and geographic advantages, has no role A little while but the rich other than that of client state within this world economy...
...but the Senate's It was the consensus of this group that the Nixonstand will force him to keep at arm's length...
...The "Brazilian miracle" saw an increase in the percentage of the gross domestic product enjoyed by the 00000000000000 richest one percent of Brazilians from 11.5 to 18.2 in a decade, while the share of the poorest 50 percent fell from 17.8 to 14.3 percent...
...More than four thousand people members of the Junta who lied shamelessly to it about were in fact sheltered and almost all later given safeeasily verifiable facts...
...some thirty persons had been executed in the early days The slaughter would undoubtedly have been vastly of the military government, but that there were none greater if all embassies had denied asylum, as the United now...
...defensive...
...throw...
...Most naive and develop their own system of exploitation...
...It was T (I Imilly assumed that they would give preferential treatment to the Commission's secretary-general...
...Its authors are Niall MacDermot, the people...
...economic process as superfluous to the labor needs, The characteristic of the subimperial states is indus- leaving them to fend for themselves like beasts...
...Kissinger policies had achieved a division of the world The Junta's claim that all this world opposition is a into spheres of influence, clearly defined as between the Commonweal: 401 West and Soviet Russia, gradually jelling with China Junta is madly trying to coax oil companies in to exalso...
...He was jailed a month ago country to the United States, then traveled extensively with a Methodist colleague, has now been exiled...
...That trial growth without social change, a system which can be done only by naked repression, the level of which Brazilian political scientist Helio Jaguaribe has called must grow in proportion to the frustrations and hates fascism...
...Even in the United States, in spite of Administration efforts to downplay Restoration of the traditional elitist society, the elim- the issues, public opinion continues to be aroused...
...pressure on foreign exchange by extending the repayA preliminary statement issued by this mission in ment period...
...He reported that "several thousand majority that at Christmas was seeking to placate the persons suspected of opposition" were arrested as the Junta is now in open and seemingly insoluble conflict trials opened, and that numerous trials were being held with it...
...President is not expected to go so far...
...But the subjected to "various forms of ill-treatment, sometimes expected investment in economic expansion did not amounting to severe torture," and that the ill-treatment materialize...
...They have a free hand to maintain they have painted themselves into a corner...
...While these defendants" with crimes that were not crimes the statement indicates continuing internal conflict, a when committed...
...tically nothing to offer but copper, a metal whose price They know me for what I am...
...A study of many known facts carries the the principal ideologist for ISAL (Church and Society trail back to the United States and suggests that some- in Latin America), the hemispheric organization of where in Washington is a central storehouse of informa- socially progressive Protestants...
...across the dividing lines...
...All identify with ambassador...
...Blacklisting prevents identified as a CIA agent) "seemed surprised, confused, other employment...
...The most hospitable embassies put total deaths at 80,000, but the figure generally were Argentina, Mexico, France, Panama, Sweden, Italy, offered the Commission was between 20,000 and 25,000...
...fluctuates wildly and which is particularly sensitive to No dreamer, the world recession that many see in the offing...
...It is fascist because it restricts the benefits of it creates...
...Russia and China in turn get prospect of elections for at least five years...
...The educaing to escape...
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