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December 28--Today we met Hans, a 65-year-old leftist who was born in Austria and came to Chile in the 1930s fleeing Hitler. He and his buddies, other desperate, old and some not-so-old radicals, hand around the park which lines the Mapocho River. Hans used to put his cosmopolitan background to use in the hotel business--he speaks three languages--but the tourists are afraid of Chile these days; the hotels are empty and Hans has been out of work for over a year...
...building and killed them. Mass arrests, directed by military intelligence, began immediately. Hans lived near the stadium at that time, and he heard the machine-guns at work all night. Everyone I spoke to saw bodies, many bodies, either strewn about in the city center or floating in the Mapocho River...
Three jurists, members of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, stopped in New York en route to Geneva last week with an account of widespread killings in Chile. "Every day, until the eve of the departure of the commission," said a group statement, "corpses were pulled out of the Mapocho River [which runs through Santiago] or brought in great quantities to the morgue, or left to decompose in the places where they were executed, as if to reinforce the effect of the terror." The jurists did not report on the number of persons slain since the Sept. 11 coup...
...snow daily in parts of the Andes. Just before dawn one morning in Portillo, a fashionable resort 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, an avalanche hurled a reinforced concrete hut 60 yds. down the slope, killing five of 14 skiers asleep inside. In Santiago, the flood-swelled Mapocho River swept away thousands of slum dwellers' shacks, turned the city's broad avenues into raging streams. And the wind! In one schoolyard, a group of children stood paralyzed by fear as a furious blast of air lifted the roof of their school, then slammed it down in their...
...minuscule (300) and well-guarded Japanese colony. The police put 20 Germans under preventive arrest. Chipping in their two cents' worth, the Argentines-who are far more worried about Communists than Germans and Japs-contributed a complicated suspicion: before leaving port, the assistant butcher of the Mapocho had been told by his boss that the ship was doomed to destruction; since the boss was known to be a Communist, it was no doubt a dark Red plot...