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Setting the Record Straight On Allende, Once More
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 25, 2003 | MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

Posted on 04/25/2003 8:39:19 AM PDT by Mister Magoo

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

At 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende made a radio announcement that the Chilean navy had "isolated" the port city of Valpara

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allende; chile; communism; coup; dictators; latinamerica; latinamericalist; pinochet; powell
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To: headsonpikes
I just finished reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and recommend to anyone interested in the Spanish civil war.
61 posted on 09/12/2003 5:37:04 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Alter Kaker; BlueLancer; curmudgeonII; B-Chan
I did not believe that fascism was conservative value.
Perhaps you are on wrong site.

Ah, that word 'Fascist'!
"X was a Fascist."
Argument over

Standard leftist technique.

Perhaps you are on the wrong site.

62 posted on 09/12/2003 5:41:15 AM PDT by Allan
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To: chilepepper
My friends here in Chile are always telling me that were it not for Pinochet, Chile would be another third-world crap hole with a wrecked economy like all of its neighbors. The biggest grief I get about Pinochet is from North Americans and Europeans that I work with.
63 posted on 09/12/2003 5:42:45 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Cuttnhorse

64 posted on 09/12/2003 6:07:16 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Cuttnhorse
'Homage to Catalonia'

One of the great books of the 20th Century!
65 posted on 09/12/2003 6:35:44 AM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: TheWillardHotel
Hear, hear!
66 posted on 09/12/2003 9:02:37 AM PDT by Mmmike
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