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Amalia Bertoli, Roger Burbach, David Hathaway, Robert High, Eugene Kelly
When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 U.S. foreign policy clearly bore the stamp of the Nixon-Kissinger years. Its cornerstone in the Third World was U.S. support of reactionary client regimes - most of them military dictatorships-committed to containing popular movements and otherwise defending U.S. interests.
Amalia Bertoli, Roger Burbach, David Hathaway, Robert high and Eugene Kelly.
Within half a decade, repressive, military-dominated governments took power in four Southern Cone countries, murdering or imprisoning hundreds of thousands. What was the rationale? Why were these countries, with their differing political histories, all subjected to right-wing military coups at roughly the same time? The coups were a necessary response of U.S. imperialism and the local ruling ...
Amalia Bertoli, Roger Burbach, David Hathaway, Robert high and Eugene Kelly.
For the vast majority in the Southern Cone countries, the coups of the past ten years have meant sudden and overwhelming changes. These changes affect every aspect of life-- people's work, standards of living, family relations, education and personal security.
Amalia Bertoli, Roger Burbach, David Hathaway, Robert high and Eugene Kelly.
Today the Administration realizes that the dictatorships, as presently constituted, do not represent the most effective guarantees of long-term imperialist control. In fact, as the conflicts in Iran and Nicaragua demonstrate, the dictatorships may be setting the stage for an ...

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Chris Jenkins
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Sarah Stewart
Against a backdrop of increasing political crisis, Salvadorean President Carlos Humberto Romero announced late last year his intention to heighten surveillance throughout the country and to dismantle all "subversive" organizations. So far, only the first of his ambitions has been fulfilled.
Al Gedicks
In May of 1976 Exxon USA announced its discovery of one of the world's largest and richest deposits of copper-zinc in northern Wisconsin. The corporation plans to spend approximately $400 million to bring the mines into production, and by the mid-1980s, according to the Engineering and Mining Journal, "Exxon may become a significant producer of copper and zinc at facilities based on the massive sulphide deposit .
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