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...expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
...Yugoslavs, said the Chilean Government, were key agents of the new Communist International. Furthermore, the Communist party's Latin-American section was out to persuade Latin countries to join the Soviet bloc, attack the continental defense policy. Direction of this ambitious scheme came, Chile said, from headquarters in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...
...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...Need. Like the majority in Lota, Juan is a Communist. His union is Communist too. In the past it has staged some violent strikes, lost every time. Last week, the union's tone was strangely moderate. Its leaders seemed to take seriously the claims of the Chilean and British owners that costs were high,* and bound to remain so as long as machinery ordered in the U.S. failed to arrive...