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...strikes could not have come at a worse time for Allende or the Chilean economy. Inflation for the first nine months of this year is a staggering 99.8% . The price of sirloin steak, on the rare occasions it has been available, has increased 200% ; stew beef is up 116%, powdered milk 166%. Wheat and bread are in short supply. Butter has disappeared. But real hunger threatened only momentarily when food stores closed in a strike two weeks ago, until the army ordered them to reopen...
...pretty blonde was the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. But clearly Prince Charles, 23, had suggested that his mother invite Lucía Santa Cruz, 27, daughter of former Chilean Ambassador Victor Santa Cruz, for a weekend visit to the royal home in Aberdeenshire. After the holiday, Lucia accompanied the Prince overnight on the train from Aberdeen to London's King's Cross Station. To reporters' questions, Lucía declared: "There is no romantic attachment between us." Then, with the deference due Royalty, she walked a proper few yards behind the Prince to a waiting royal...
Just eight months ago, President Salvador Allende Gossens bragged that "the Chilean road toward socialism has been reached with the least cost of any other revolution in the world." Unfortunately for Marxist Allende, Chile's socialist road now seems to be rather bumpy. Last week, in the wake of continuing economic decay, Allende announced a sweeping austerity program of "work, sacrifice and savings...
Chile's economic stagnation has been caused mainly by overzealous nationalization. Thus far about 250 firms have been taken over; many were "intervened" (as Chilean official jargon puts it) in the wake of often phony labor disputes or charges that production is faltering. Hundreds of foreign technicians have left the country, contributing to a sharp drop in productivity. In the nationalized copper industry, Chile's largest source of income, production this year is projected only marginally higher than last, despite a plant-capacity increase...
Arica's guru is Oscar Ichazo, 40, a Bolivian ex-philosophy student who let it be known in 1970 that he was planning a training retreat for North Americans in the Chilean city of Arica. Among the 50 seekers who made the trip-and paid from $4,000 to $7,000 apiece for the ten-month experience -were artists, housewives, businessmen and a few scientists (among them Dr. John Lilly, the dolphin expert, who had previously tried to achieve higher consciousness on LSD trips). Almost half were disenchanted defectors from Esalen, the encounter center at Big Sur, Calif...