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...three southernmost nations of Latin America were near political paralysis last week. Chile, already polarized by a conflict between left and right, was jarred by an abortive army coup. Widespread terrorism persisted in Argentina, following the return to Buenos Aires of ex-Dictator Juan Perón. In Uruguay, a successful military coup brought at least a temporary end to republican government. All in all, it was a sad and humiliating time for three countries that had seemed to embody many of the continent's best hopes for development and democracy...
...CHILE: RIGHT-WING REVOLT
...last Friday, four tanks and about 100 soldiers of Chile's 2nd Armored Corps surrounded the squat, gray Moneda Palace in downtown Santiago. As the troops released a hail of machine-gun, bazooka and rocket fire at the carabineros guarding the palace, pedestrians dove for cover; others scattered and ran wildly. Within minutes, seven people were dead and 22 wounded...
...shooting caused enormous flocks of pigeons to wheel in confusion over the square, which was packed with the cars of commuters who were trapped downtown by the coup attempt. The crew that usually raises the Chilean flag in front of the Moneda in the morning defiantly draped Chile's national flag out a first-floor window of the palace. Somehow that hapless scene seemed to symbolize the country's present state...
...spent more than a decade getting this far, and obstacles have not fazed him. He was a doctor before he was a missionary, but while serving in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps on a 1960 scientific mission to Antarctica, he first saw his future during stopovers in Chile and Peru. "I was amazed and appalled at the misery of the poor," he says. "I had never seen anything like...