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...Salvador Allende is the Communist-supported candidate for the presidency of Chile. The ads are part of what he derides as the campaign of terror against him by Chilean rightists. Yet Allende, a Chilean Senator who leads the radical Socialist Party, which is left of Chile's Communists, proudly boasts of his Marxist goals. "The capitalist regime has failed," he says. If elected, Allende promises a government-led revolution that would totally remold the country's social and economic order. He makes no secret of his admiration for Castro...
...created dangerously conflicting anxieties in the electorate, and those concerns are reflected in the spectrum of presidential candidates. Allende, a physician by training, has done most to dramatize the tragic conditions. As a panacea, he promises to nationalize mining, banking and foreign trade, and see to it that every Chilean baby has a pint of milk...
Since none of the candidates is likely to win a majority in the Sept. 4 election, the contest will probably be settled next month by the Chilean Congress. Any outcome is possible. But the reluctance of Allende and Tomic to create ill feeling by criticizing each other during the campaign could be a sign that they are considering the possibility of a leftist coalition if Alessandri should poll the most votes...
...Sanchez. Although little known to the gallery-going public, he was something of a legend to his fellow artists. "We all called him Alberto," Picasso said later. "And almost no one remembered his last name. Alberto by itself was enough, because there was only one Alberto." Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, recalls visiting Picasso's studio one day to find the two Spaniards deep in conversation. Suddenly Picasso whirled on his mild-mannered friend. "What's your opinion, Alberto? Who's the greatest sculptor of our time?" Sanchez thought for a moment, then ventured, "Brancusi?" "No," answered...
...children were kept in Prague -presumably as hostages-throughout their parents' assignment to Ankara. When Dubček was summoned home and fired, his wife was confined to the dreary Czechoslovak embassy compound. Prevented from leaving the embassy, Anna was unable to attend a wedding reception for the Chilean ambassador's daughter. Nonetheless, she sent a wedding gift, carefully enclosing both her and her husband's calling cards. A friend later telephoned to tell her that the gift had arrived without either one; another card had been substituted saying simply, "From the Embassy of Czechoslovakia." Anna broke...