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...CHILE...
When a politician is in trouble at home, he often tries his luck abroad. Thus, two weeks ago Chile's beleaguered President Salvador Allende Gossens embarked on a five-nation tour that took him to Mexico, the U.S., Algeria, the Soviet Union and Cuba. Allende's first trip outside Chile since he was elected President in 1970 had another purpose besides bolstering his prestige at home, which has been eroded by political and economic strife: he was seeking the credits needed to shore up a sagging economy...
...rhetorical tone of the trip was set during Allende's stop in Mexico, where he was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds. "Yesterday in Mexico, today in Chile," the Marxist President told a special session of the Mexican Congress. "The bastard interests of the capitalists have tried to prevent us from being masters of our own destiny." Allende left little doubt that he was referring to the U.S., which he believes is trying to sabotage his government...
...safe. He fled to Brazil and Bolivia, where he seemed to lead a checkered existence. At one stage, Farago had him visiting "prurient nightclubs"; at another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close to the Argentine border, and turned it into an armed fortress, complete with antiaircraft gun. From this stronghold, wrote Farago, Bormann regained control of his funds in Argentina and began to build a business empire with Mafia...
...colonel, prefigured the gas chamber by channeling exhaust fumes into trucks filled with victims. Vienna Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal claims that Rauff was responsible for the deaths of 97,000 people in such a manner in Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Poland and Yugoslavia. Rauff reportedly lives today in Punta Arenas, Chile. West Germany requested Rauff's extradition in 1963, but the Chilean supreme court denied the request because the statute of limitations had taken effect...