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Walter Heitmann is a man who looks as though he would be more comfortable in the uniform of an army officer than in the formal apparel of a diplomat. In fact, a few years ago he was one of the highest-ranking men in the Chilean Armed Forces, a general in the Air Force. His retirement in 1972 proved abortive when the military junta that ousted President Salvador Allende in September 1973 drafted him--and his fluent English--to serve the new government as its envoy to the United States. His articulateness in defending the military government of Gen. Augusto...
...like Castro's Communism or countries in the Communist orbit." On the other hand, he continues, "If the Communists change their name to, say, the Progressive Party, and have a program of national interest, there is no problem at all. We want no foreign interests in our country. The Chilean government is for the Chileans, and not for others...
Heitman's speech this afternoon is presumably a step in his continuing campaign to make people forget other injustices--notably the thousands of killings, the mass imprisonments, the political repression, the cut in Chilean workers' living standards, and the forcible suppression of Chile's nonviolent, constitutional revolution carried out by his bosses with American support. Students should join the picket line at the Harvard Club this afternoon and let him know that however successful his employers may be for the moment, his campaign isn't working...
...poured $8 million to "destabilize" the Allende government and to bribe Chilean congressmen to vote against Allende...
...September 11, 1973, the Chilean military stages a coup. Allende is killed, the press is censored, civil rights are suspended, Congress is dissolved, thousands are executed, tens of thousands are imprisoned. A military dictatorship begins rule...