Word: chiles
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DAVID LEWIS is courtly, slow of speech, reflective and almost doleful in conversation. Since last month's military coup against Chile's Popular Unity government, he is also the only non-Cuban socialist in the Western Hemisphere in a position to determine the fate of his country's government...
...junta has also announced its interest in negotiating with foreigners to lure badly needed investments to the country. Striking truckers are back at work, and food and other staples are beginning to flow into the major cities. Despite the specter of night arrests and secret executions, daytime life in Chile is gradually returning to its familiar rhythms...
...behind this startlingly swift transformation were at first total strangers to most Chileans. Their faces are now as well known as Chile's soccer players, and something of their personal!ties has begun to emerge from the sleek, 23-story office building in downtown Santiago that serves as junta headquarters. The four leaders...
...competent geographer (he has written three books on the subject). But he obviously had more in mind than maps and charts. He took a leading role in the extensive plotting that resulted in Allende's overthrow on Sept. 11. As commander of the most powerful of Chile's armed forces, Pinochet was the logical choice to head the junta. He immediately vowed to "exterminate Marxism," a promise that is being carried out with chilling efficiency...
...Guzmán, 53, is the junta's ideologue and, after Pinochet, its most imposing member. He has demanded a permanent role for the armed forces in Chilean life despite the fact that the armed forces had remained aloof from politics for 41 years. He seems to envision Chile evolving into a quasifascist corporate state...