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...Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens is beginning to sound and act like a man who is fighting for his political life. In February, the Chilean Congress, which is dominated by the opposition Christian Democratic and National parties, passed a constitutional reform bill that would prohibit the President from nationalizing any more private firms without congressional approval. If it should become law, the ban would be retroactive to October 1971. Last week Allende angrily vetoed the bill. He further declared that if his veto were overridden, he would introduce a measure to dissolve the Congress, and if Congress...
...both the right and the far left. Though he has recently refused permission for opposition groups to hold demonstrations, he agreed to allow a massive protest march by Christian Democrats and Nationalists this week on the eve of a U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Santiago. In southern Chile, illegal land seizures inspired by MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) have continued at the rate of between 60 and 100 per month. Allende has spoken out against the seizures, but in order to avoid antagonizing his supporters on the extreme left, he has not called out the police...
Pinheads. At the same time, Allende has been trying to shore up his country's international credit rating. He has begun to make token payments on some of Chile's obligations to foreign firms, including the Anaconda Co., which last week dropped court-ordered liens against certain Chilean properties-including holdings of LAN-Chile, the state airline-with assets in the U.S. Allende has also paid at least half of the $2.2 million in interest due the Boise Cascade Corp., which owned an electric company that was sold to the Chilean government in 1970. In Paris, no agreement...
...midst of so many problems, the ITT affair (TIME, April 3) strengthened Allende's position at home, and the Chilean Congress launched an investigation into foreign interference in the country's affairs. Presumably, the Congress would not stop Allende from nationalizing ITT's properties in Chile, which include two Sheraton hotels and a cable company. By the hundreds, Chileans were snapping up a little black paperback entitled Documentos Secretos de la ITT (Secret Documents of ITT). For the most part, the government-sponsored book is a straightforward collection of the Jack Anderson memos alleging that ITT officials...
...unidentified ITT employee slipped Columnist Jack Anderson the famous Dita Beard and Chile memos, and Anderson says that someone at ITT still feeds him information. Last week Anderson wrote that a high-level employee at Pfizer Inc. tipped him that the drug company's managers were urging workers to write their Congressmen to express opposition to a bill that would set up a federal consumer-protection agency; a worker at Ford apparently put Anderson on to safety defects in the company's "sexy" Capri compact. This month in Harper's, Kermit Vandivier, a former B.F. Goodrich data...