NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Charles Ilornsan After four years, the Charles Horman case is suddenly back in the news. Horman was the young American tilmmaker and Commonweal writer between 1968-71, who...
...Several ot the defendants are said to have "encouraged, suggested and/or actually requested" Horman's execution...
...Two days after returning to Santiago, he was hauled out of his home and taken to the National Stadium, where he was interrogated by Chilean Military Intelligence and sentenced to death...
...15 points...
...Easw 13sWchologU Returning to the topic of German terrorism and vigilantism [News & Views, 11/ 11/77], the West German daily Bild Zeitung has offered parents a chance to predict whether their children will wind up on the ten-mostwanted list someday...
...This is a free country," he said...
...Horman was working on an animated children's film and researching the 1970 kidnapping and murder of General Rene Schneider, Chief of Staff at the time Allende was elected...
...I don't want this to happen to an American citizen again...
...Horman obviously had hehrd too much...
...10 points...
...The New Yorker's whimsical comment: "Right on, Reverend...
...News: Controversial singer Anita Bryant was on hand at a L ynchburg church Sunday morning to hear its fundamentalist preacher call for a return to the "'McCarthy era where we register all Communists...
...Horman's father declared...
...The Horman family suit was filed on Oct...
...Busch is obviously a redeeming social value...
...Military Group in Valparaiso...
...A child can be half-way there with Peg Averill/LNS 25 November 1977:738 yes answers to just two questions: "Does your family have a weak father...
...News & Views, 12/7/73] Horman's widow and parents have now filed suit in U.S: District Court in Washington against former Secretary of State Kissinger and a long list of U.S...
...A source has an American sitting in on the decision and being actually present when the death sentence was pronounced...
...Those 50 points aren't hard to come by...
...To what end all this...
...What can revenge do...
...At that meeting, just down the hall from the U.S...
...A child who reads Franz Kafka is slapped with three points, while a taste for Wilhelm Busch (a 19thcentury comic artist and writer of moral tales) allows one to subtract eight points...
...He was quoted as saying, "We came down to do the job and it's done...
...On the day of the coup overthrowing Allende, Horman was in Vina del Mar, adjacent to the headquarters of both the Chilean Navy and the Navy Section of the U.S...
...To take the test, parents simply have to rate scores on a series of questions about the children's family lives and habits, then total up the resutts...
...For...
...Horman was the young American tilmmaker and Commonweal writer between 1968-71, who died under mysterious circumstances at the time of the 1973 coup in Chile that overthrew the Popular Unity government headed by Salvador Allende...
...The opportunity comes by way of a "psychological test" allegedly designed to answer the question, "Could your child become a terrorist...
...Reading habits are also a tip-off...
...A child who is "sensitive" picks up another eight points...
...The singer, who led a fight against a homosexual rights movemenl in Dade County, Fla., sat on the podium behind Dr...
...Horman's plight and the allegatioos of the suit are believable only in the light of the international shenanigans that the public has lately discovered to have been American practice unto the most recent past...
...It further maintains that Kissinger knew of Horman's arrest, detention and execution, and recommended that no steps be taken to save him...
...Naval Mission who spoke exultantly of American cooperation in the coup...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...this, the Hormans are demanding $4,540,000 in punitive and compensatory damages, and are also seeking a court order allowing them to receive "any and all information within the possession of the defendants concerning the death of Charles Horman...
...A S c a r l e t C, No /~MJbt The New Yorker for Oct...
...6. It specifically charges that Henry Kissinger, as Nixon's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, was involved in planning the coup and had earlier been involved in the kidnapping of General Schneider...
...It only has to be partly accurate to be wholly scandalous...
...Asking questions instead of "being happy" costs six points...
...involvement in the Schneider case---facts which did not become known to the American public until the 1975 Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was- published...
...Military Mission, it was again decided that Horman "knew too much" and must die...
...for of Thomas Road Baptist Church, as he said, "Not only should we register them, but we should stamp it on their foreheads and send them back to Russia...
...Ostensibly he uncovered facts relating to U.S...
...it is changing its name to the National Statesman Party...
...Actually, the details sound like somethink out of Kafka...
...But there's not as much moral momentum to Busch a~ there is to a motorcycle...
...If your child scores more than 50 points," said Bild Zeitung, "she or he is theoretically likely to be infected with terrorist ideas and even to commit violent acts...
...The allegation continues that Horman was then taken to the office of the chief of Chilean Military Intelligence, where his sentence was reviewed...
...24 carried the following newsbreak from the Lynchburg (Va...
...government and military officials, alleging that they knew of Horman's arrest in time to have tried to save him, and that instead they chose either to condone or to encourage Horman's execution...
...There he came upon members of the U.S...
...lerry Faiwell, pas...
...One, it has been revealed, was a retired American engineer, who had been at 15th Naval District headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone...
...Apart from feelings for a one-time Commonweal contributor and the claims of justice, this is reason sufficient in itself to wish the suit success...
...Such is the substance of the Horman story...
...Not revenge...
...Does your mother dominate...
...For any child who belongs to a motorcycle gang, the test allows parents to subtract 10 points...
...Odd~ and End~ The Chutzpa Award for November goes to the National Prohibition Party...
Vol. 104 • November 1977 • No. 24
