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...that will mark the first time in 136 years that Uruguay's President will have been chosen from neither the Colorados nor the Blancos, whose platforms as conservative Establishment parties are virtually indistinguishable from each other. The Front was formed by dissidents who feared that President Jorge Pacheco Areco's repressive response to workers' demands and to the activities of the youthful urban terrorists, the Tu-pamaros, would lead to civil war. It is composed of half a dozen small parties, including the Christian Democrats, the Communists and the Socialists, as well as renegades from the Colorados...
...qualified support to the Broad Front, though Seregni has been careful to dissociate himself from their espousal of violence. One of his most popular promises has been to convert into much-needed ambulances the police vans that Montevideans call "chanchitas" (little pigs), and that have become a symbol of Pacheco's abridgement of civil liberties...
President Pacheco, who succeeded to office from the vice-presidency in 1967 after President Oscar Gestido died, has ruled with almost dictatorial powers since early 1968, when he declared a state of emergency after a series of student and worker strikes. He instituted unlimited search and seizure, froze wages and prices (violators face summary arrest) and imposed press censorship. Motorists are routinely stopped at roadblocks and a Montevidean out for a stroll may be stopped several times with demands that he show his documents. Last July, Congress voted to lift the siege; Pacheco reimposed it a few hours later...
Present at the meeting were: Barbara Ackerman, Michael J. Amato, Fred Arsenault, Jerry R. Cole, Donald F. Dailey, Francis H. Duehay, Saundra Graham, Jeanne Lafferty, Robert P. Moncreif, Steve Nelson, Henry F. Owens III, Edward P. Pacheco, Harry Photopoulos, Robert Anthony Romagna '74, Thomas P. Rossi, Leonard J. Russell, Toba L. Singer, Philip S. Shaw, Henry Smilowitz, C. Wendell Smith, and Sarah Jane Ullman...
...announced their ransom terms for Jackson. Whatever they ask might prove academic in any case. The British have considerable influence in Montevideo because they have long been the largest customer for Uruguayan meat, even though British imports dropped recently following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. But President Pacheco declared last August that he would not negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances, and he is expected to stick to his position...