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EARLY Saturday morning, opponents of the Chilean military coup set off a bomb in International Telephone and Telegraph's New York City office. The "Weather Underground," an offspring of the old Weatherman group, claimed responsibility for the action. No one was hurt by the explosion, in which several ITT offices and facilities were damaged...
...that the Chilean army has overthrown Allende and seized power, all indications are that ITT, if it wants to, will return to Chile with new guarantees against expropriation...
Saturday's bombers, despite all their precautions, could not be certain that innocent people would not be injured in the explosion. And clearly, the bombing did not save even a single Chilean liberty or a Chilean freedom fighter. For this reason, the legitimacy of the bombing, at the very least, is highly questionable...
...Nothing would have served our interests better than if [Allende] had completed his term in office and then been repudiated by the Chilean people in constitutional elections...
...junta hardly seems hospitable to the press, foreign or domestic. Even after censorship was lifted, three journalists, Marlise Simons from the Washington Post, Georges Dupoy from Le Figaro and Pierre Kalfon of Le Monde, were arrested for stories they had written. They were later released. And, of the nine Chilean papers published before the coup, only three were permitted to appear last week...