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...Marxist, socialist, prosperous and democratic Chile could have been the key nation in Mr. Nixon's détente strategy. Allende's dream for his country-an open society with a Communist economy, full civil liberties, intellectual freedom and democratic electoral institutions-could have been obvious proof to the Kremlin and Peking that they need not destroy their Solzhenitsyns and Sakharovs...
...country with a mixture of U.S. and Communist influences could have understood issues from both sides and could have been of invaluable diplomatic use. President Nixon should have done everything he could to help Chile's Marxist "experiment" succeed...
...resources and rather simplistic answers to the resulting problems. "We've got some rough days ahead of us," says Connally. "We don't have all the oil we need, we don't have all the energy we need. We've got to rely on Chile and Zambia and Saudi Arabia and Canada, and they're going to set the price." How to cope? "We're going to have to be more thrifty in our use of things. Let's just recognize the problem and buckle down...
...killing continued. José ("Comandante Pepe") Gregorio Liendo Vera, a popular revolutionary who organized peasants in the south of Chile to seize farms, was executed by a military firing squad. Communist Party Leader Luis Corvalán Lepe is on trial on a charge of high treason, which carries the death penalty. All told, 476 people have died-some say as many as 5,000-including one American...
...Chile's strongmen attempted to counter the increasingly strident world criticism by releasing details of a Strangelovian plot that they say justifies their harsh treatment of leftists. The plot, which will be revealed in the U.N. this week by the Chilean Foreign Minister, is called "Plan Zeta." It reportedly called for the execution of 17,000 right-wing and moderate Chileans, including high-ranking military officers, former President Eduardo Frei, anti-Allende union bosses, justices of the supreme court, lawyers and businessmen. A government official who spoke to TIME's Benjamin Cate in Santiago last week said that...