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For the defense.(Letter to the editor)

National Review

| January 29, 2007 | Jorandby, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

There was very little productive in Mr. Buckley's column of December 12 ("Any Kind Words for Pinochet?"). There is not a "special awkwardness" in the matter of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Simply stated, if he had not taken action in 1973, Chile today would be something like a Cuba or Poland on the Pacific, or maybe a Chile on the Pacific, but one without commerce and industry--in other words, like the rest of South ...

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