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Mass Prison. Reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch from Santiago: "It is clear that we are not seeing a caretaker government. The most optimistic person I have talked to does not expect the country to be ruled again by civilians before 1977 at the earliest...
Correspondent Rauch, who was allowed to inspect the interior of the stadium last week, found no signs of any mass-execution sites. Some prisoners were lounging in the bleachers. But, Rauch noted, "there was not more than one-tenth of the people we had been told were in the stadium. When asked where the others were, the stadium commandant replied, 'Some prefer the sun, while others prefer the shade. Those you do not see prefer the shade...
...Santiago's General Cemetery where he awaited the cortege of Poet Pablo Neruda (see following story), Rauch noticed on the wall of an adjacent morgue a list of 300 people whose bodies were to be claimed by relatives...
Having been in Chile in the month of August, Rauch provided extensive background material on the present crisis. In one of his files, Rauch reported: "The only thing amusing about Eisendrath's predicament is what some other newsmen made of it. One of them asked Perdn's rival, Ricardo Balbin, whether he felt the U.S. was responsible for the coup. 'After all, a special correspondent for TIME went to Santiago just hours before Allende's downfall,' the journalist explained, 'and doesn't that prove...
While most of the country survived on short rations, the truckers seemed unusually well equipped for a lengthy holdout. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited a group of truckers camped near Santiago who were enjoying a lavish communal meal of steak, vegetables, wine and empanadas (meat pies). "Where does the money for that come from?" he inquired. "From the CIA," the truckers answered laughingly. In Washington, the CIA denied the allegation...