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...said Barros is also likely to address the Orlando Letelier case, which has been a controversial point in U.S. Chilean relations. Letelier, the Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. under Marxist president Salvador Allende, was assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1976, allegedly by agents of the Chilean military junta which overthrew Allende three years earlier. Chile has refused to extradite three military officials accused of plotting the killing...
Gamble then whacked a Quisenberry pitch up the middle which White snared but overthrew at third, allowing Jackson to score and Gamble to advance to third. Cerone promptly drilled an RBI single into left field for the go-ahead...
...most obvious effect of the military intervention that overthrew the Turkish government of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel two weeks ago was the widespread sense of relief it produced. After months of rising terrorism by both the extreme left and extreme right, the country allowed itself to settle into a state of unaccustomed relaxation. Civilians waved at tanks rumbling through the streets of Istanbul. Automobile drivers shook hands with soldiers who manned the roadblocks. Storekeepers raised their bombproof shutters for the first time in months, and restaurants began to fill up again in the evenings. Some city dwellers looked...
...Shahanshah (King of Kings), absolute ruler of the remnant of the Persian Empire that his father had renamed Iran. Since fleeing the country in January 1979, he had been a man without a country, a man with a price on his head, placed there by the Muslim fundamentalists who overthrew him. His search for a home took him initially from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico. Last October he requested permission to enter the U.S. for medical treatment. Despite warnings that his admission could irreparably damage relations with the new government in Tehran, the Carter Administration, encouraged...
While inclusion of a Confederate flag on your Fourth of July cover may infuriate some, it will delight millions who view it as a reminder that the same spirit which overthrew the Crown and blazed up in vain in 1861-65 burns today with increasing fierceness against a Federal Government that has swelled into a mountainous monolith of overbearing, overburdening bureaucratic tyranny...