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During the campaign, Allende vowed that he would expropriate the country's leading newspaper, the conservative El Mercurio. Now it seems that he will not even have to bother. He can achieve the same result by withholding government advertising from Mercurio and other offending publications; as the nationalization program gathers momentum, such punishment will become ever more deadly. Says a Chilean associated with the paper: "El Mercurio is like a candle in a bottle. It will give light for a while, and then will be smothered, leaving only a little black smoke. How long it lasts depends...
Allende is a Marxist who has sought to work through the constitutional framework, and he has promised to "guarantee democratic rights and respect individual freedoms" (see box). But he has also vowed to expropriate the right-wing newspaper El Mercurio, leading Chileans to speculate cynically that El Siglo, the Communist party organ, will soon become the best-read paper in the country, and, they say "it will be printed on better presses too-Mercurio's." The Moscow-aligned Communists, a minority partner in Allende's Popular Front coalition, will probably play a disproportionately important role...
...smartest sonovabitch this business has ever seen," and would "slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham. He is booted out, thanks to the connivance of, among others, a homosexual programming chief in Hollywood...
...same five-star category as Chambord and Pavilion, two of the world's great restaurants. Arrant nonsense is the three-star billing of P.J. Moriarty's, a saloon with no-star food, compared to the two-star ratings of the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel, Mercurio or Copain...
Latin American reaction ranged from chilly skepticism to outright rebuff. Snorted Cuba's U.N. delegate: "What the Russians want is to place spies and agitators in Latin America." Snapped Santiago's El Mercurio: "The U.S.S.R. is making a false offer in an attempt to extend its tyranny." In Rome, Traveler Juscelino Kubitschek spoke as the President-elect of Latin America's biggest nation: "We know from past experience that the Russians never give anything without trying to take at least twice as much in return...