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...invited the sign in front of the National Library in Santiago, and hundreds of celebrating Chileans eagerly obeyed the injunction. For two escudos (14?) apiece, they pitched darts at an 8-ft.-high wooden image of Uncle Sam in full flight, clutching money-stuffed suitcases labeled "Chilean copper." As Chile's Dr. Salvador Allende was inaugurated last week for a six-year term as the world's first freely elected Marxist President, a mood of anti-Americanism prevailed...
Coolly Correct. In private, Allende met with President Nixon's representative, Assistant Secretary of State Charles Meyer, for what was described as a "serious and friendly" chat. But Americans are not exactly popular in Chile. U.S. Ambassador Ed Korry, for example, has become a whipping boy of the far left. "When Korry returns to his own country," said the Socialist daily Ultima Hora, "it can be said with all justice and satisfaction, 'Yankee go home and don't come back again...
...rightist army uprising in October 1969. Addressing 80,000 people at a football stadium later in the week, Allende described the assassination as an example of "the criminal lunacy of those who have always exploited the people." As for the future, "the anti-capitalist movement has assumed power in Chile," he said, and would swiftly create "a republic of the working class...
Italy was the seventh of NATO's 15 members to recognize Peking*, thus placing half of Washington's closest allies in direct opposition to U.S. policy on China. Belgium, another NATO member, is expected to recognize Mao's regime shortly, as are Austria and Chile. Altogether, 50 countries now recognize the Peking regime as China's legitimate government...
RICHARD S. CROSS Peace Corps Volunteer. Chile 1966-67 Douglas...