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...with automatic weapons sealed off a 2-sq.-mi. area of shops, theaters and office buildings. Puzzled laborers on their way home from work looked on as angry students and union members materialized, taunting the military with their ritual battle cry, "He is going to fall!"--a reference to Chile's authoritarian leader, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. But then paramilitary police lobbed tear gas into the crowd, and within two hours police had carted off 121 demonstrators in vans...
...Pinochet to intimidate his burgeoning opposition, which now ranges from Communists to the Roman Catholic Church to members of his own junta. Yet far from smoothing the ! transition to democracy, Pinochet seems intent on proving at whatever cost that the lessons of the Philippines do not apply to Chile. In the process, critics charge, he is further polarizing Chilean society. Says Gabriel Valdes, leader of the moderate Christian Democratic Party: "Pinochet is a good machine for producing Communists...
...claims that the sweeps have turned up weapons and explosives. Meanwhile, the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a guerrilla group thought to be linked with the Communist Party, last week blew up three power pylons south of Santiago, plunging the capital and other towns housing more than half of Chile's 12 million people into darkness for 90 minutes...
...coup, has insisted on labeling his political opponents as Marxists or Marxist influenced. A poll released last week by the Santiago-based Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences disclosed that only 13% of Chileans questioned consider themselves "leftists," but fully 73% agree there should be "radical changes" in Chile's government. Such changes are unlikely until at least 1989, when Pinochet's 1980 constitution calls for the four-man military junta to choose a candidate for President, subject to public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however, may tempt Pinochet to scrap even that small step...
...like Amnesty International, the Hillel's Committee on Oppressed Jewry, and Students Supporting Solidarity. In any event, if Harvard divested from companies that do business in South Africa they would, by the same gesture, divest of all of their stock in companies that are in the Soviet Union and Chile. They are the same companies...