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- Wednesday, January 18, 1984 - North Shore News

Grubel saw only what he wanted

Dear Editor

I wish to object to the silly
arguments and reporting in
the two articles you have
published by Professor
Grubel (Jan. .1 and 8) based
on his impressions of Chile
while attending an academic
conference there.

Having attended a number
of academic conferences in
unfamiliar cities, I can attest
to how little of those cities I
was able to see while listening
to learned papers and discus-
sions, and engaging in the

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social life of the conference.
Grubel does not tell us how
long he stayed in Chile out-
side timespent at the con-
ference, how widely he
travelled there, or how deeply
he was able to investigate any
particular environment.

Presumably the ‘‘tennis
club” is a_ well-guarded
establishment for the local
wealthy and visiting
dignitaries. Did Grubel
glimpse some slums from a
bus and just assume that they
were no worse than many
elsewhere, or did he have the
opportunity to study the
slums in detail before con-
cluding that they were better
than.some parts of Chicago?

(My own brief look at urban
slums in a South American
country more democratic
than present-day Chile was
completely devastating; I
could never speak lightly of
this experience.) As _ for
Chileans he spoke to: to what
class did they belong, how
fluent is his Spaniish, and
how much criticism did he.ex-
pect to hear of a government
with a history of savage
repression of dissent? Also,
did he expect secret agents to
wear badges saying ‘‘Secret
Agent’’?

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reports and such extensive
media coverage of torture
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anyone to doubt the reality of
political murder there is on
the same level of improbabili-
ty as doubting the evidence
for the existence of Nazi
death camps. Such denial of
well-documented fact is wor-
thy of 1984.

Grubel darkly suggests that
the difference between media
coverage of Chile and his
own impressions of
downtown Santiago may be
due to ‘‘communist pro-
paganda and _ misinforma-
tion’’. Does he really mean to
suggest that the refugees who
have escaped from that coun-
try are telling deliberate lies,

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been thoroughly duped by
Communist influence? To at-
tempt to whitewash the ob-
vious atrocities of a dictator-
ship is to become an ac-
complice to them. Apparent-
ly Grubel approves of the
economic policies of the
Chilean government, and in
his visit there has seen only
what he wanted to see.
Reporting of such low quality
is not worthy of publication.

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North Vancouver

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