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[B] That's what we're used to hearing from the rock group Mr.
Mister.
Last month, Mr.
Mister
performed at the annual Vina del Mar festival in Chile.
Now you may recall that many of
Chile's most eminent actors, directors and playwrights have been told to leave their
homeland on penalty of death.
On stage, lead singer Richard Page stood up and said, I salute
all of the Chilean actors who are frightened to death.
The artists of the world are with
you.
And thus began an international incident.
Joining us today is Richard Page of Mr.
Mister
and Charles Fullwood, the director of communication for Amnesty International.
Richard, you certainly
were aware of what was going on in Chile [Gb] and that they weren't just kidding.
Why on earth
would you get up and make a statement like that, considering what could have been some
harmful repercussions?
Well, first of all, you have to realize that what I said was not
a militant political statement.
It was a humanitarian statement directed towards the
people who have been threatened.
I wasn't saying down with the Pinochet government,
down with your whole structure here.
I merely said we stand with you.
What happened was
the guilty party became very defensive at that point and it erupted into a little bit
of a stir for us.
Yeah.
What happened?
Well, one of our stagehands or one of our guitar
roadies was threatened, you know, saying, you know, you're not going to get out of here.
It's going to be very tough for you now.
They sort of ushered [Eb] me into a smaller room with
the mayor and tried to get [G] me to apologize and go back out and say I didn't mean it,
that someone had handed me the statement.
I didn't know [N] what I was saying.
Just trying
to twist the whole thing in their favor.
Because you remember this.
I have to understand this
went on live television and live radio.
That's a big event down there, isn't it?
Yeah.
And
they like to keep it sacred.
[Am] They want to keep politics out of it because, you know,
they don't want the truth to get [Ab] out about some of the things that are happening there.
Mr.
Fulwood, what is going [Gb] on down there from Amnesty International's viewpoint?
And why is
the government so [A] worried about all their artists?
Well, our information indicates that the Chilean
government is engaging in a systematic campaign at this point to intimidate domestic dissent
and to curtail people from speaking out against human rights abuses there.
And in particular,
the artists, though, is that what the artists are?
Part of a much larger campaign.
There is
a systematic effort to intimidate the population.
In 1986, over 20,000 people were rounded up and
placed in athletic stadiums that were converted into makeshift detention centers.
And in these
centers, torture occurs, sometimes executions and other forms of brutality.
There are over 700
people who had disappeared over the past 10 years in Chile.
[Bb] And we suspect that the government and
other death squads have been [E] involved in those abductions.
Any more reprisals or anything else
said after you were, I guess, summarily escorted out of the country?
Well, yeah, they were, I think,
my view of the thing was that people involved in the festival were really worried about their jobs.
It wasn't necessarily like everybody said, oh, no, you've said something bad about the government.
It was the fact that it was their responsibility.
They hired us.
You know, that was what a lot of
the nervousness was about.
But the press, of course, wanted to [Gb] get to us.
And they do have a
thriving opposition press down there, although they're squashed some way, I'm sure.
Yeah, but
yeah, do you see anything [G] happening, well, similar [Ab] to South Africa, where the attempt will be made to
boycott in any way the government as far as groups like Mr.
Mister or others going down there?
I'm
not sure about that.
I don't really know about that.
I have a feeling that from now on, they're
going to interview bands very [E] carefully and find out if [Db] they're involved with Amnesty International
or, you know, did you have a chance to meet and talk to any of the people that were there, the
artists [Bb] at all?
A great question.
[Gb] I was called into the mayor of Vimy's office, this woman, the next day,
and it was almost like being sent into the principal's office at school, you know, [E] and she told me privately
that she respected what I said and that she admired our music.
I ended up signing our address for
kids.
The point is here that I'm making is that most of the people there [G] don't like what's going
on, in my opinion, and we [E] got a lot of this from people, a lot of way, thank you, thanks a lot.
I got
telegrams from the actors.
[N] It's just one guy and a few of his buddies controlling a large country of
very wonderful people, very warm people, and it's just a shame it has to happen.
Yeah, Mr.
Fortwood,
in November, I guess, the big push started with a lot of the threats, bombs being suggested in
gardens, cars being threatened to be blown up and bodily harm and so forth, yet much of that has not
happened.
Many of the artists have not left.
Why do you suspect that some of these threats are not
being carried out?
Well, given the record in the past 10 years, or actually the past 14 years,
with disappeared people and executions and torture, we can only interpret this as being related to
international opinion and placing the spotlight on these death threats before they're carried out
and with groups and people like Richard and Mr.
actually standing up and making statements
while they're in the country, as well as coming back here and exposing it.
It is only the generation
of male, from ordinary people around the world, and from publicity such as this program here,
that's stopping this.
Would you go back?
[Abm] Yeah, I would if we were invited back.
I don't think that's
going [E] to happen.
I just kind of doubt it, but yeah, I just want to say one other thing that
my opinion of all [G] this is that you can change [Gb] political structures and you can change people's
ability to govern [Ab] themselves, but when you take away the voice [Abm] of the people, which is always the
actors, the writers, the theater people, the literaries, then you [G] really have no voice and
the people have no voice and that's what was my purpose.
Yeah, aside from Thumbs Up and so forth,
did the artist in any way collectively comment or collectively?
They showed up at the airport
when we left.
The president of the theater's union, he gave me a wonderfully inscribed
dedication on a poster and was very happy and I feel they think that the heat's off for a while
and I hope it is.
There's the poster.
Vida, what does it say?
Vida de Liberté?
Or I'm not sure what it says.
Boy, [C] you just don't realize how lucky we are.
Yeah, it's true.
This country with all of its
clamor and carrying on sometimes.
Thank you very much, Richard, for being here.
Mr.
Fullwell, thank you for
Mister.
Last month, Mr.
Mister
performed at the annual Vina del Mar festival in Chile.
Now you may recall that many of
Chile's most eminent actors, directors and playwrights have been told to leave their
homeland on penalty of death.
On stage, lead singer Richard Page stood up and said, I salute
all of the Chilean actors who are frightened to death.
The artists of the world are with
you.
And thus began an international incident.
Joining us today is Richard Page of Mr.
Mister
and Charles Fullwood, the director of communication for Amnesty International.
Richard, you certainly
were aware of what was going on in Chile [Gb] and that they weren't just kidding.
Why on earth
would you get up and make a statement like that, considering what could have been some
harmful repercussions?
Well, first of all, you have to realize that what I said was not
a militant political statement.
It was a humanitarian statement directed towards the
people who have been threatened.
I wasn't saying down with the Pinochet government,
down with your whole structure here.
I merely said we stand with you.
What happened was
the guilty party became very defensive at that point and it erupted into a little bit
of a stir for us.
Yeah.
What happened?
Well, one of our stagehands or one of our guitar
roadies was threatened, you know, saying, you know, you're not going to get out of here.
It's going to be very tough for you now.
They sort of ushered [Eb] me into a smaller room with
the mayor and tried to get [G] me to apologize and go back out and say I didn't mean it,
that someone had handed me the statement.
I didn't know [N] what I was saying.
Just trying
to twist the whole thing in their favor.
Because you remember this.
I have to understand this
went on live television and live radio.
That's a big event down there, isn't it?
Yeah.
And
they like to keep it sacred.
[Am] They want to keep politics out of it because, you know,
they don't want the truth to get [Ab] out about some of the things that are happening there.
Mr.
Fulwood, what is going [Gb] on down there from Amnesty International's viewpoint?
And why is
the government so [A] worried about all their artists?
Well, our information indicates that the Chilean
government is engaging in a systematic campaign at this point to intimidate domestic dissent
and to curtail people from speaking out against human rights abuses there.
And in particular,
the artists, though, is that what the artists are?
Part of a much larger campaign.
There is
a systematic effort to intimidate the population.
In 1986, over 20,000 people were rounded up and
placed in athletic stadiums that were converted into makeshift detention centers.
And in these
centers, torture occurs, sometimes executions and other forms of brutality.
There are over 700
people who had disappeared over the past 10 years in Chile.
[Bb] And we suspect that the government and
other death squads have been [E] involved in those abductions.
Any more reprisals or anything else
said after you were, I guess, summarily escorted out of the country?
Well, yeah, they were, I think,
my view of the thing was that people involved in the festival were really worried about their jobs.
It wasn't necessarily like everybody said, oh, no, you've said something bad about the government.
It was the fact that it was their responsibility.
They hired us.
You know, that was what a lot of
the nervousness was about.
But the press, of course, wanted to [Gb] get to us.
And they do have a
thriving opposition press down there, although they're squashed some way, I'm sure.
Yeah, but
yeah, do you see anything [G] happening, well, similar [Ab] to South Africa, where the attempt will be made to
boycott in any way the government as far as groups like Mr.
Mister or others going down there?
I'm
not sure about that.
I don't really know about that.
I have a feeling that from now on, they're
going to interview bands very [E] carefully and find out if [Db] they're involved with Amnesty International
or, you know, did you have a chance to meet and talk to any of the people that were there, the
artists [Bb] at all?
A great question.
[Gb] I was called into the mayor of Vimy's office, this woman, the next day,
and it was almost like being sent into the principal's office at school, you know, [E] and she told me privately
that she respected what I said and that she admired our music.
I ended up signing our address for
kids.
The point is here that I'm making is that most of the people there [G] don't like what's going
on, in my opinion, and we [E] got a lot of this from people, a lot of way, thank you, thanks a lot.
I got
telegrams from the actors.
[N] It's just one guy and a few of his buddies controlling a large country of
very wonderful people, very warm people, and it's just a shame it has to happen.
Yeah, Mr.
Fortwood,
in November, I guess, the big push started with a lot of the threats, bombs being suggested in
gardens, cars being threatened to be blown up and bodily harm and so forth, yet much of that has not
happened.
Many of the artists have not left.
Why do you suspect that some of these threats are not
being carried out?
Well, given the record in the past 10 years, or actually the past 14 years,
with disappeared people and executions and torture, we can only interpret this as being related to
international opinion and placing the spotlight on these death threats before they're carried out
and with groups and people like Richard and Mr.
actually standing up and making statements
while they're in the country, as well as coming back here and exposing it.
It is only the generation
of male, from ordinary people around the world, and from publicity such as this program here,
that's stopping this.
Would you go back?
[Abm] Yeah, I would if we were invited back.
I don't think that's
going [E] to happen.
I just kind of doubt it, but yeah, I just want to say one other thing that
my opinion of all [G] this is that you can change [Gb] political structures and you can change people's
ability to govern [Ab] themselves, but when you take away the voice [Abm] of the people, which is always the
actors, the writers, the theater people, the literaries, then you [G] really have no voice and
the people have no voice and that's what was my purpose.
Yeah, aside from Thumbs Up and so forth,
did the artist in any way collectively comment or collectively?
They showed up at the airport
when we left.
The president of the theater's union, he gave me a wonderfully inscribed
dedication on a poster and was very happy and I feel they think that the heat's off for a while
and I hope it is.
There's the poster.
Vida, what does it say?
Vida de Liberté?
Or I'm not sure what it says.
Boy, [C] you just don't realize how lucky we are.
Yeah, it's true.
This country with all of its
clamor and carrying on sometimes.
Thank you very much, Richard, for being here.
Mr.
Fullwell, thank you for
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] That's what we're used to hearing from the rock group Mr.
Mister.
Last month, Mr.
Mister
performed at the annual Vina del Mar festival in Chile.
Now you may recall that many of
Chile's most eminent actors, directors and playwrights have been told to leave their
homeland on penalty of death.
On stage, lead singer Richard Page stood up and said, I salute
all of the Chilean actors who are frightened to death.
The artists of the world are with
you.
And thus began an international incident.
Joining us today is Richard Page of Mr.
Mister
and Charles Fullwood, the director of communication for Amnesty International.
Richard, you certainly
were aware of what was going on in Chile [Gb] and that they weren't just kidding.
Why on earth
would you get up and make a statement like that, considering what could have been some
harmful repercussions?
Well, first of all, you have to realize that what I said was not
a militant political statement.
It was a humanitarian statement directed towards the
people who have been threatened.
I wasn't saying down with the Pinochet government,
down with your whole structure here.
I merely said we stand with you.
What happened was
the guilty party became very defensive at that point and it erupted into a little bit
of a stir for us.
Yeah.
What happened?
Well, one of our stagehands or one of our guitar
roadies was threatened, you know, saying, you know, you're not going to get out of here.
It's going to be very tough for you now.
They sort of ushered [Eb] me into a smaller room with
the mayor and tried to get [G] me to apologize and go back out and say I didn't mean it,
that someone had handed me the statement.
I didn't know [N] what I was saying.
Just trying
to twist the whole thing in their favor.
Because you remember this.
I have to understand this
went on live television and live radio.
That's a big event down there, isn't it?
Yeah.
And
they like to keep it sacred.
[Am] They want to keep politics out of it because, you know,
they don't want the truth to get [Ab] out about some of the things that are happening there.
Mr.
Fulwood, what is going [Gb] on down there from Amnesty International's viewpoint?
And why is
the government so [A] worried about all their artists?
Well, our information indicates that the Chilean
government is engaging in a systematic campaign at this point to intimidate domestic dissent
and to curtail people from speaking out against human rights abuses there.
And in particular,
the artists, though, is that what the artists are?
Part of a much larger campaign.
There is
a systematic effort to intimidate the population.
In 1986, over 20,000 people were rounded up and
placed in athletic stadiums that were converted into makeshift detention centers.
And in these
centers, torture occurs, sometimes executions and other forms of brutality.
There are over 700
people who had disappeared over the past 10 years in Chile.
[Bb] And we suspect that the government and
other death squads have been [E] involved in those abductions.
Any more reprisals or anything else
said after you were, I guess, summarily escorted out of the country?
Well, yeah, they _ were, I think,
my view of the thing was that people involved in the festival were really worried about their jobs.
It wasn't necessarily like everybody said, oh, no, you've said something bad about the government.
It was the fact that it was their responsibility.
They hired us.
You know, that was what a lot of
the nervousness was about.
But the press, of course, wanted to [Gb] get to us.
And they do have a
thriving opposition press down there, although they're squashed some way, I'm sure.
Yeah, but
yeah, do you see anything [G] happening, well, similar [Ab] to South Africa, where the attempt will be made to
boycott in any way the government as far as groups like Mr.
Mister or others going down there?
I'm
not sure about that.
I don't really know about that.
I have a feeling that from now on, they're
going to interview bands very [E] carefully and find out if [Db] they're involved with Amnesty International
or, you know, did you have a chance to meet and talk to any of the people that were there, the
artists [Bb] at all?
A great question.
[Gb] I was called into the mayor of Vimy's office, this woman, the next day,
and it was almost like being sent into the principal's office at school, you know, [E] and she told me privately
that she respected what I said and that she admired our music.
I ended up signing our address for
kids.
The point is here that I'm making is that most of the people there [G] don't like what's going
on, in my opinion, and we [E] got a lot of this from people, a lot of way, thank you, thanks a lot.
I got
telegrams from the actors. _ _
[N] It's just one guy and a few of his buddies controlling a large country of
very wonderful people, very warm people, and it's just a shame it has to happen.
Yeah, Mr.
Fortwood,
in November, I guess, the big push started with a lot of the threats, bombs being suggested in
gardens, cars being threatened to be blown up and bodily harm and so forth, yet much of that has not
happened.
Many of the artists have not left.
Why do you suspect that some of these threats are not
being carried out?
Well, given the record in the past 10 years, or actually the past 14 years,
with disappeared people and executions and torture, we can only interpret this as being related to
international opinion and placing the spotlight on these death threats before they're carried out
and with groups and people like Richard and Mr.
actually standing up and making statements
while they're in the country, as well as coming back here and exposing it.
It is only the generation
of male, from ordinary people around the world, and from publicity such as this program here,
that's stopping this.
Would you go back?
[Abm] Yeah, I would if we were invited back.
I don't think that's
going [E] to happen.
I just kind of doubt it, but yeah, I just want to say one other thing that
my opinion of all [G] this is that you can change [Gb] political structures and you can change people's
ability to govern [Ab] themselves, but when you take away the voice [Abm] of the people, which is always the
actors, the writers, the theater people, the literaries, then you [G] really have no voice and
the people have no voice and that's what was my purpose.
Yeah, aside from Thumbs Up and so forth,
did the artist in any way collectively comment or collectively?
They showed up at the airport
when we left.
The president of the theater's union, he gave me a wonderfully inscribed
dedication on a poster and was very happy and I feel they think that the heat's off for a while
and I hope it is.
There's the poster.
Vida, what does it say?
Vida de Liberté?
Or I'm not sure what it says.
_ Boy, [C] you just don't realize how lucky we are.
Yeah, it's true.
This country with all of its
clamor and carrying on sometimes.
Thank you very much, Richard, for being here.
Mr.
Fullwell, thank you for
Mister.
Last month, Mr.
Mister
performed at the annual Vina del Mar festival in Chile.
Now you may recall that many of
Chile's most eminent actors, directors and playwrights have been told to leave their
homeland on penalty of death.
On stage, lead singer Richard Page stood up and said, I salute
all of the Chilean actors who are frightened to death.
The artists of the world are with
you.
And thus began an international incident.
Joining us today is Richard Page of Mr.
Mister
and Charles Fullwood, the director of communication for Amnesty International.
Richard, you certainly
were aware of what was going on in Chile [Gb] and that they weren't just kidding.
Why on earth
would you get up and make a statement like that, considering what could have been some
harmful repercussions?
Well, first of all, you have to realize that what I said was not
a militant political statement.
It was a humanitarian statement directed towards the
people who have been threatened.
I wasn't saying down with the Pinochet government,
down with your whole structure here.
I merely said we stand with you.
What happened was
the guilty party became very defensive at that point and it erupted into a little bit
of a stir for us.
Yeah.
What happened?
Well, one of our stagehands or one of our guitar
roadies was threatened, you know, saying, you know, you're not going to get out of here.
It's going to be very tough for you now.
They sort of ushered [Eb] me into a smaller room with
the mayor and tried to get [G] me to apologize and go back out and say I didn't mean it,
that someone had handed me the statement.
I didn't know [N] what I was saying.
Just trying
to twist the whole thing in their favor.
Because you remember this.
I have to understand this
went on live television and live radio.
That's a big event down there, isn't it?
Yeah.
And
they like to keep it sacred.
[Am] They want to keep politics out of it because, you know,
they don't want the truth to get [Ab] out about some of the things that are happening there.
Mr.
Fulwood, what is going [Gb] on down there from Amnesty International's viewpoint?
And why is
the government so [A] worried about all their artists?
Well, our information indicates that the Chilean
government is engaging in a systematic campaign at this point to intimidate domestic dissent
and to curtail people from speaking out against human rights abuses there.
And in particular,
the artists, though, is that what the artists are?
Part of a much larger campaign.
There is
a systematic effort to intimidate the population.
In 1986, over 20,000 people were rounded up and
placed in athletic stadiums that were converted into makeshift detention centers.
And in these
centers, torture occurs, sometimes executions and other forms of brutality.
There are over 700
people who had disappeared over the past 10 years in Chile.
[Bb] And we suspect that the government and
other death squads have been [E] involved in those abductions.
Any more reprisals or anything else
said after you were, I guess, summarily escorted out of the country?
Well, yeah, they _ were, I think,
my view of the thing was that people involved in the festival were really worried about their jobs.
It wasn't necessarily like everybody said, oh, no, you've said something bad about the government.
It was the fact that it was their responsibility.
They hired us.
You know, that was what a lot of
the nervousness was about.
But the press, of course, wanted to [Gb] get to us.
And they do have a
thriving opposition press down there, although they're squashed some way, I'm sure.
Yeah, but
yeah, do you see anything [G] happening, well, similar [Ab] to South Africa, where the attempt will be made to
boycott in any way the government as far as groups like Mr.
Mister or others going down there?
I'm
not sure about that.
I don't really know about that.
I have a feeling that from now on, they're
going to interview bands very [E] carefully and find out if [Db] they're involved with Amnesty International
or, you know, did you have a chance to meet and talk to any of the people that were there, the
artists [Bb] at all?
A great question.
[Gb] I was called into the mayor of Vimy's office, this woman, the next day,
and it was almost like being sent into the principal's office at school, you know, [E] and she told me privately
that she respected what I said and that she admired our music.
I ended up signing our address for
kids.
The point is here that I'm making is that most of the people there [G] don't like what's going
on, in my opinion, and we [E] got a lot of this from people, a lot of way, thank you, thanks a lot.
I got
telegrams from the actors. _ _
[N] It's just one guy and a few of his buddies controlling a large country of
very wonderful people, very warm people, and it's just a shame it has to happen.
Yeah, Mr.
Fortwood,
in November, I guess, the big push started with a lot of the threats, bombs being suggested in
gardens, cars being threatened to be blown up and bodily harm and so forth, yet much of that has not
happened.
Many of the artists have not left.
Why do you suspect that some of these threats are not
being carried out?
Well, given the record in the past 10 years, or actually the past 14 years,
with disappeared people and executions and torture, we can only interpret this as being related to
international opinion and placing the spotlight on these death threats before they're carried out
and with groups and people like Richard and Mr.
actually standing up and making statements
while they're in the country, as well as coming back here and exposing it.
It is only the generation
of male, from ordinary people around the world, and from publicity such as this program here,
that's stopping this.
Would you go back?
[Abm] Yeah, I would if we were invited back.
I don't think that's
going [E] to happen.
I just kind of doubt it, but yeah, I just want to say one other thing that
my opinion of all [G] this is that you can change [Gb] political structures and you can change people's
ability to govern [Ab] themselves, but when you take away the voice [Abm] of the people, which is always the
actors, the writers, the theater people, the literaries, then you [G] really have no voice and
the people have no voice and that's what was my purpose.
Yeah, aside from Thumbs Up and so forth,
did the artist in any way collectively comment or collectively?
They showed up at the airport
when we left.
The president of the theater's union, he gave me a wonderfully inscribed
dedication on a poster and was very happy and I feel they think that the heat's off for a while
and I hope it is.
There's the poster.
Vida, what does it say?
Vida de Liberté?
Or I'm not sure what it says.
_ Boy, [C] you just don't realize how lucky we are.
Yeah, it's true.
This country with all of its
clamor and carrying on sometimes.
Thank you very much, Richard, for being here.
Mr.
Fullwell, thank you for