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...ambassador from Chile looks a bit out of place, seated on a deep couch and sipping coffee in a dark wood-panelled room of the Harvard Club in Boston. His well-tailored, pinstriped suit reveals the thick, muscular outline of a body surprisingly robust for a man of 57 years. His hands are large and his shoulders seem almost stony in their squareness. His neatly-combed silver hair and dark skin complement the angular features of his roughly handsome face...
...have a voice in management." "Workers are getting titles of property. Sixty per cent of the land now belongs to farm workers." "The policy of the government is that all strategic materials--oil, coal, copper--are going to be managed by the state." Heitmann does, in fact, claim that Chile is a socialist country, along the lines of Sweden, Denmark or Holland...
...Chile's socialism, as Heitmann describes it, is far from the policies reigning before the military overthrew Allende. While the state is to own all natural resources, Chile will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in them. The government will resort to nationalization in the future "only if necessary." Foreign companies seized by Allende have either been returned or their former owners have been compensated. And later, in his speech, the ambassador tells his audience that the junta will retain power "as long as it takes to reorganize the country from a socialist system to a capitalist system." Elections can take...
WALTER HEITMAN, Chile's ambassador to the United States, is speaking this afternoon to the Harvard Club's World Affairs Council. Heitman's main task as ambassador has been to defend the military junta that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically chosen Popular Unity government last year. Heitman has thrown himself into his task with an enthusiasm so exaggerated it's almost comic, an enthusiasm he demonstrated in a letter to The New York Times last week. In the letter, the former admiral announced that a charge by a member of an international jurists' commission that the junta was sending Popular...
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...