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There would be no state funeral, announced the ruling military junta, which confined itself to a restrained statement of condolence. Nonetheless, Pablo Neruda, the protean Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who died at the age of 69 last week, was given an emotional and stirring farewell...
Neruda's early work was rhapsodic and lushly romantic, at once Whitmanesque and surrealistic. During the 1930s, the style and tone of his verse abruptly changed. The catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, which Neruda witnessed as a Chilean consul in Spain...
...move marks the spread of a new strategy by which multinational companies hope to counter the threat of expropriation: the international legal blockade. Kennecott Copper Corp. had some success with the approach last fall, after the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens had expropriated its huge El Teniente mine without compensation. Kennecott got courts in France, Italy, Germany and Sweden to hold up payments by European purchasers for four separate shipments of copper from El Teniente, contending that the copper was in effect stolen property. The shutoff of European markets for the copper probably helped to build economic...
Died. Pablo Neruda, 69, Nobel-prizewinning Chilean poet and former ambassador (see THE WORLD...
...HOWEVER, Chilean reality, its history and its idiosyncracies, its characteristics, the strength of its institutions, led us political leaders to understand that in Chile we had no other way to change but through an electoral struggle. And we won through that way, although many questioned our tactics. The guerrilla struggle and the popular army came to prominence in this continent after the Cuban Revolution, but there are tactical divergences that are not always understood...