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What could eventually turn the South against Nixon is that he has not acted with the personal honor that the region has always valued. It is the gut that may react first, as it did with the patrons in the saloon owned by Manuel Maloof, a power in the Democratic Party in De Kalb County, Ga. Maloof was bartending when the news of the missing tapes was reported on TV. "You wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt...
...Mexican journalist in Santiago, Manuel Mejido, managed to interview 15 of the people who claim to have last seen Allende alive. According to his account, the President assembled close friends in the palace and told them: "I will not abandon La Moneda. They will only take me out of here dead." The group included ten members of the security force and 30 youths of a private guard known as el Grupo de Amigos Personales (the Group of Personal Friends...
...gained its independence from Spain in 1818, the country has been periodically racked by economic strife and class warfare, with the military entering the fray on one side or the other. In 1891, civil war broke out when part of the armed forces sided with a progressive President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda (who committed suicide when he lost), and part with a Congress determined to block his reforms. Allende frequently drew parallels between Balmaceda's plight...
...truckers could be Chile's Archie Bunkers, characterized by having a low level of tolerance for people who try to tell them what to do with their money. Some of them, however, are civil engineers forced into trucking because of the lack of jobs. Others, like Manuel Alvarez, have been journalists abroad who returned because they were homesick. "This is a battle for the future," says Alvarez, the owner of an old truck so lacking in engine parts that it had to be towed onto the field. "I am fighting so my children won't have...
...Lourengo Marques on unspecified charges "relating to the security of the state." Their fellow priests at the Mission of São Pedro, near Tete, will say nothing. Some Portuguese here believe it is quite possible that a massacre did occur. The secretary of the Bishop of Tete, Father Manuel Mouro, told...