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Tanks, in fact, were advancing past his window−just across Constitution Square from the beleaguered Moneda, the Presidential Palace−and raking the hotel's façade with gunfire; Chilean army fighter-bombers were streaking overhead. For a while, guests were ordered into the basement for safety; when Eisendrath returned to his room, he found machine gun bullets lodged in his ceiling...
...teach-in will also feature a Chilean film, "Comtamento," which translates as "Shantytown." The film is about the industrial slums that ring Chilean cities...
...amounted to the second highest per capita in the world, trailing only South Vietnam. And after Allende took office, the military aid, which he left alone because of the 1970 pledge, continued after other U.S. aid and loans were cut off. By strengthening a conservative and powerful sector of Chilean society, the U.S. is ultimately responsible for the present military dictatorship whether CIA agents shot at Allende...
Despite the increasing mandate for Popular Unity, the U.S. strategy regarding the Chilean military finally paid off. After forcing the old commander-in-chief, Carlos Prats, a Popular Unity supporter talked of (but not in the U.S. press) as Allende's successor, the military and the entrepreneurial associations moved against the government...
James Petras, a professor of Government at the State University of N.Y. at Binghamton, and the author of Politics and Social Forces in Chilean Development, heads the list of speakers...