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...said Air Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán, a member of Chile's four-man ruling junta, at a press conference last week. It was not true, Leigh insisted, that he and his fellow generals were fascists, as their enemies had charged. Instead, he claimed, the junta was merely taking temporary measures to rid the country of the Marxist disease spread by the late President Salvador Allende Gossens. The military's goal was to achieve "reconstruction" and "normalcy." Once these were reached, said Leigh, the generals would return to barracks...
Possibly yes, possibly no. But certainly not for some time. Last week the junta stepped up its campaign against Marxism into a virtual holy war aimed at destroying anyone and anything vaguely connected with Allende. Thousands of people were jailed without hearings. Soldiers beat people and burned books. Ten people were shot by firing squads after summary courts-martial for hostile acts against the new government. Man hunts were still being conducted for some of Allende's major political collaborators, and long-haired youths were still being subjected to instant haircuts...
Despite an early announcement that it would welcome the return of outside investors, the military government appeared to be infected with an irrational xenophobia. One reason was the junta's conviction that Chile's chaos had been largely brought about by the Latin American radicals who had been granted asylum by Allende. TIME'S Rauch was picked up by carabineros merely for walking past the burned-out shell of the Socialist Party headquarters in Santiago...
...shortages that crippled the Chilean economy have been evaded. The Chilean entrepreneurs and professionals who refused to submit to government plunder and enslavement have been vilified. Those who dare to speak out against Allende's tyranny have been smeared as fascists and lumped with the supporters of the military junta and its alleged atrocities...
...military junta just began to allow foreigners trapped in Chile by the September 11 coup to leave the country on Sunday...