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...group of demonstrators protesting the Chilean junta yesterday interrupted the closing meeting of the Inter-American Press Association's Annual Conference (IAPA) at the ITT-owned Sheraton Boston Hotel...
...month since overthrowing Salvador Allende Gossens' Marxist government, the military junta has forcefully extended its tentacles of repression into every part of Chilean society. The left has been brutally sundered, many of its leaders tracked down and imprisoned or executed. All political parties have been suspended, and the country's eight universities, most of them traditional incubators of leftist sentiment, placed under the direct supervision of the military. By last week the junta's control was apparently complete, and all vestiges of organized opposition were smothered-at least temporarily...
Chile's strongmen attempted to counter the increasingly strident world criticism by releasing details of a Strangelovian plot that they say justifies their harsh treatment of leftists. The plot, which will be revealed in the U.N. this week by the Chilean Foreign Minister, is called "Plan Zeta." It reportedly called for the execution of 17,000 right-wing and moderate Chileans, including high-ranking military officers, former President Eduardo Frei, anti-Allende union bosses, justices of the supreme court, lawyers and businessmen. A government official who spoke to TIME's Benjamin Cate in Santiago last week said that...
...Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán, 53, is the junta's ideologue and, after Pinochet, its most imposing member. He has demanded a permanent role for the armed forces in Chilean life despite the fact that the armed forces had remained aloof from politics for 41 years. He seems to envision Chile evolving into a quasifascist corporate state...
...Admiral José Torbio Merino Castro, 58, comes from a family with a long naval tradition (an uncle was chief of the Chilean navy in the 1950s). Merino's passions include philately and anti-Marxism. His violent opposition to the left is sometimes expressed with a certain wit. Says he: "To call Karl Marx a philosopher is to overvalue him. He tried to be an economist...