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More than 400 self-proclaimed "Christians for Socialism," meeting in Santiago, Chile, last month, acted on Che's prophecy. They declared that the time has come for "a strategic alliance of revolutionary Christians and Marxists in the process of liberating the continent." Participants in the meeting, from all 28 Latin American countries, the U.S., Canada and Europe, were both Protestant and Roman Catholic; they were social scientists, missionaries, teachers, theologians, social workers. Some were nuns. The majority were Roman Catholic priests. One bishop took a leading role: Don Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca, Mexico...
With their Italian silk suits, Swiss watches and flashing grins, the happy foreigners stood out conspicuously in Santiago, Chile. They came from Swaziland, Barbados, Fiji and other developing states to confront representatives of richer industrial countries in the third
...settlement-an announcement that temporarily knocked down the stock price. Then the assault was heated to new intensity as Columnist Jack Anderson (TIME cover, April 3) published authentic-looking ITT memos describing a 1970 plan to prevent Marxist Salvador Allende from taking office as President of Chile by causing "economic collapse" in that country. And most recently, Democratic politicos have been decrying the fact that ITT has paid only relatively modest current federal and Canadian taxes -less than 25%-on its mammoth earnings...
...public relations are headed by Harold ("Hal") Hendrix, a onetime Scripps-Howard newsman who won a Pulitzer Prize for his disclosure of the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba, and has close ties with the Central Intelligence Agency. Columnist Jack Anderson's revelations of ITT's involvement in Chile's politics are based on memos written largely by Hendrix and Robert Berrellez, a former Associated Press reporter who is ITT's p.r. chief in Buenos Aires...
Thus, the movements persist. In Chile, the M.I.R. (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), which is militant but has seldom employed murderous tactics, has made a strong appeal to landless peasants in the southern part of the country. With only token resistance from the police, they have seized more than 150 farms and illegally occupied 2,000 or so apartments in government housing projects this year. Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, has been reluctant to move decisively against the squatters for fear of further weakening his already shaky left-wing coalition of support. Last week, a massive protest parade in Santiago...