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Sergio Bitar, a former Allende cabinet minister, shuffled from one concentration camp in Chile to another. Institutionalized brutality there has produced "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government," he says...
Sergio Bitar, a native of Chile, is now a fellow at Harvard's Institute for International Development. John Karefa-Smart left Sierra Leone to become a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Pavel Litvmov has been polishing his English at Manhattanville College in Purchase. N.Y., so he can resume the study of physics that he had to abandon in the Soviet Union. These men have one trait in common--all were political prisoners in their native countries, and all were aided by an organization known as Amnesty International...
...strategy for the historic compromise is based on the example of the Allende regime in Chile, a socialist regime in another Catholic country that instituted radical change so swiftly that it panicked the middle class, provoked extremism on the right and frightened off foreign capital. Italian Communists seek to avoid these hazards by emphasizing moderation and stressing that they will zealously guard individual rights. Plainly, many of the 2.3 million 18-to 21-year-olds who were voting for the first time were convinced. So were droves of middle-class Italians...
...country's economic difficulties become ever more obvious as Chile enters the South American winter. Hunger is settling into the shantytowns around Santiago as the poor find it increasingly difficult to buy food. Workers' salaries, often only $25 to $30 a month, have not kept pace with prices, which rose 94% in the first four months of this year. The fall in international copper prices has badly hurt Chile's major export commodity, forcing the government, in conjunction with other copper-producing nations, to lower production...
...dictate export quotas designed to keep prices within a set range-have rarely succeeded. Even cartels have not worked for anyone but the oil producers. Copper prices, for example, have fallen 86? per pound in the past year to 54?, despite substantial production cutbacks by four large producers-Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaïre. To benefit from a sudden jump in coffee prices, Brazil and other growers ignored an international coffee pact more than a year ago; now that prices are down they want a new agreement...