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Geisel's tentative liberalization policies may have been partly responsible for a decision last week of General Augusto Pinochet's Chilean junta to release 304 political prisoners held without charge since the 1973 coup...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...
...opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated by a bomb in his car in Buenos Aires. In October 1975, Christian Democratic Leader Bernardo Leighton, who irritated the regime by calling, as Letelier had, for a united opposition against it, was wounded by gunmen in Rome...
...some places the evidence of torture is overwhelming and irrefutable. The brutality of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's regime in Chile, for example, has become something of an embarrassment to the Ford Administration. Last May, Treasury Secretary William Simon helped secure the release of at least 49 political prisoners. Shortly afterward, at the June meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made his strongest statement yet on human rights. "A government that tramples on the rights of its citizens denies the purpose of its existence," Kissinger announced, adding: "There are several states...
...commission also filed a 191-page separate report on Chile and an 85-page brief against Cuba (which was finished too late to be included on the agenda). The OAS charge against Chile cited numerous examples of people murdered, tortured and unlawfully arrested by the regime of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet...