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Murder Plot. To defend the junta's harsh rule, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán granted a lengthy interview to TIME'S Benjamin Gate and Rudolph Rauch in his suburban Santiago home. Leigh, 53, the most articulate of the junta's four members, showed Gate and Rauch a Soviet-made automatic rifle that, he said, was part of a leftist cache of weapons. The weapons were smuggled into Chile, presumably for use in "Plan Zeta," a supposed plot to murder top military leaders and rightists. The military did not learn of Plan Zeta...
...shifts of tone among editorial writers, columnists and TV commentators last week. Some of the journalists who had clashed most bitterly with Agnew in the past showed considerable restraint in burying their old adversary. Others who had been relatively sympathetic, perhaps feeling that they had been betrayed, were more harsh...
...books in any language published there about Jewish history or culture. Zionism is considered a treasonable crime. When some Jews began to agitate for permission to emigrate to Israel-a phenomenon that arose after Israel's spectacular victory in the Six-Day War-Soviet authorities brought down a harsh campaign of suspicion and discrimination against all Soviet Jews, with the effect that more and more Jews demanded the right to emigrate...
Chile's strongmen attempted to counter the increasingly strident world criticism by releasing details of a Strangelovian plot that they say justifies their harsh treatment of leftists. The plot, which will be revealed in the U.N. this week by the Chilean Foreign Minister, is called "Plan Zeta." It reportedly called for the execution of 17,000 right-wing and moderate Chileans, including high-ranking military officers, former President Eduardo Frei, anti-Allende union bosses, justices of the supreme court, lawyers and businessmen. A government official who spoke to TIME's Benjamin Cate in Santiago last week said that...
...mystical web of symbolic beings. There is Yorunomado, a figure of his imagination, which converses with Los, Blake personified. Niemonjima is the unknown desire for woman, and Mokpo is the heterosexual dogma, the "tool of social manipulation." Together these forces weave throughout Eshleman's life to create a harsh, painful poetic landscape...