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...hard work and meager diet of bread and beans have proved merciless. After several months on Dawson Island, Allende's Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, was brought to Santiago wearing tattered clothing and in precarious health. In February, former Minister of Interior and Defense José Tohá González committed suicide, according to the government. When brought from Dawson, the 6-ft. 4-in. Tohá weighed only...
...from the Cabinet. To prove to his countrymen-and perhaps to himself-that he still enjoys the confidence of the military, Allende included two new officers in the reshuffle. To replace Admiral Raúl Montero as Finance Minister he appointed Admiral Daniel Arellano, and Four-Star General Rolando González became Minister of Mines. To the position of Minister of Defense, Allende named a civilian, Orlando Letelier del Solar, until recently Ambassador to Washington. The sensitive post of Interior Minister fell to Carlos Briones, a close personal friend. Briones, as it happens, has managed to stay on good...
Then General Carlos Prats González, commander in chief of the army, who was doubling as Minister of Defense, threw in the towel. He had been goaded by powerful factions in the army and air force-and their wives, who engaged in rock-throwing demonstrations outside his home. They contended that Prats was compromising the military's traditional neutralism and demanded that he leave the Cabinet. He acceded when the opposition majority in the Chamber of Deputies rammed through a resolution charging that the military members of the Cabinet were violating their oath to defend the constitution...
Julio Carney Herrera, a wealthy lawyer with mildly left-wing views, was machine-gunned to death while driving home in broad daylight. The bodies of liberal Businessman Humberto González Juarez, a friend and a secretary were found beside a highway. Two young radio newscasters disappeared. So did Juan Luis Molina Loza, 27, a philosophy student and amateur actor who had played a convincing Che Guevara in a student carnival last year...
...last man, political observers expected Echeverría, a cashier's son who grew up to become a lawyer and political scientist, to win an easy victory this week over his sole opponent, Efrain Gonzáles Morfin of the conservative Partido Acción Nacional (P.A.N.). The strenuous campaign proved beyond doubt that Echeverría would change the style of the Mexican presidency. Whether he also intended to change its policies remained to be seen...