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Havana has been a haven for exiled revolutionaries for more than a decade. Algiers, too, has been a trendy fixture on the circuit for a few years. Now the Chilean capital of Santiago, home of Latin America's first freely elected Marxist government, is fast becoming the In place with the Out crowd...
...urban guerrillas who were sprung from Brazilian jails in return for the release of kidnaped Swiss Ambassador Enrico Giovanni Bucher. The Brazilians, most of student age, were warmly received. When one bellowed "Down with the Brazilian dictatorship!" as he stepped off the plane, a claque of admiring Chilean students chorused back: "Down, down, down, down...
...future in Castro's hardscrabble country even before they arrived. Still, Chile is not even trying to match the amenities available in Algeria, where President Houari Boumedienne provides visiting revolutionaries with housing, $500 a month in expenses, air-travel vouchers and even artillery practice. After the initial abrazos, Chilean officials put the arriving Brazilians up in welfare dormitories, then told them that they would be on their own after 15 days...
...nationalize the country's mining industry. The prime targets of the amendment, which is almost certain to be adopted in the next three or four months, are the three American firms that control copper mining. Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro together have investments of $617 million tied up in Chilean copper. Allende's move was the latest in a recent series of major expropriation steps in Latin America. In September, Argentina nationalized its telephone and telegraph industry. In October, Bolivia announced that it plans to seize all foreign holdings...
...that effort, Allende appointed a 15-man Cabinet that includes only one Chilean of international stature -Jacques Chonchol, an agronomist who headed Frei's agrarian reform movement but broke with the Christian Democrats because he believed they were moving too slowly on land reform. The new President reserved four Cabinet posts for his own Socialist Party, one more than expected, and gave the better-organized Communists only three. That may indicate that Allende has a healthy wariness of his foremost allies...