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Barros, a career diplomat, will present a political and economic update" on the current situation in Chile, Paul W. Garber '56, the Chilean consul in Boston, said yesterday...
...Chilean government used public fear of a return to "communism and chaos" to insure voter approval of a constitution that will allow Gen. Auguste Pinochet to remain in power for the next 17 years, Chilean writer Jorge Edwards said yesterday...
...that leftist opposition parties decided to protest the constitution by voting no rather than abstaining even though "voting gave legitimacy to the plebescite." The opposition parties felt that this would be more effective because refusing to vote is illegal in Chile and because voting is a "habit of the Chilean people," he added...
...been trying to improve his reputation abroad. If so, the attempt received an embarrasing riposte on the eve of the vote: Amnesty International released a detailed report that cited a dramatic increase in arbitrary arrests and systematic torture in Chile over the past two months. According to the report, Chilean secret police have rounded up between 1,000 and 2,000 people since July 15. Most were beaten and tortured; many have not been heard from since their arrests...
...Chilean people appear to have voted not so much for Pinochet's vision of the future as for the stability and relative prosperity of the present. Most Chileans, especially the women, who make up 56% of the electorate, still remember the critical shortages and triple-digit inflation of the Allende years. So when the sex-segregated voting booths opened last week, both men and women turned out in force, some of them nervously determined to reject Pinochet, but most willing to support him as long as the good times last. The final tally: 67.6% of voters endorsed the constitution...