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U.S.
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ASK RICE TO URGE BACHELET TO ACT ON WEISFEILER
CASE
(March 10, 2006) A bi-partisan group of 14 U.S.
Senators and Representatives this week urged Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to raise the case of Boris Weisfeiler with Michelle
Bachelet, the new President of Chile, when Rice is at Bachelet’s
inauguration ceremony on Saturday in Santiago.
Weisfeiler was
a Pennsylvania State University mathematics professor at the time of
his disappearance in Chile in 1985. Although his disappearance has
never been fully explained, there is evidence suggesting the
involvement of members of Colonia Dignidad, a secretive, right-wing
community led by a former German Nazi, which flourished in southern
Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and which helped torture the
regime’s dissidents.
The letter was organized by Congressman
Barney Frank (D-MA), who represents Weisfeiler's surviving
relatives, and was also signed by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA);
John Kerry (D-MA); Arlen Specter (R-PA); Rick Santorum (R-PA);
Christopher Dodd (D-CT), who is the senior Democrat on the Senate
Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere; Robert
Menendez (D-NJ); House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Rep.
John Peterson (R-PA); Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA); Rep. Eliot Engel
(D-NY), who is the senior Democrat on the House International
Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere; Rep. Shelley Berkley
(D-NV), who is also a member of the International Relations
Committee; Rep. James Moran (D-VA); and Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz (D-FL).
SOURCE: WEISFEILER FAMILY
By Steve
Anderson (publisher@santiagotimes.cl)
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