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...some tough measures that may make things worse before they get better. Basket-case industries like textile mills and electronics may be allowed to go under. Further import controls may be imposed, accompanied by a large devaluation of the escudo. "This country has to learn to work again," says Raul de Almeida Capela, a director of the Banco Portuguès do Atlántico. After the two-year political free-for-all, that may not be an easy task...
...government has tried to avoid a fight with the Roman Catholic Church, to which 84% of Chileans belong. Last April, Pinochet privately assured Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, the Archbish op of Santiago, that "things would improve." A conference of the country's bishops agreed to say nothing about the torture of political dissidents. Things seemed to improve somewhat. Political arrests in Santiago decreased from 100 in March to 80 in April. But by August, the monthly arrest figure was up to 141; by September, it stood at 205. The bishops were particularly disturbed by the mounting evidence that Pinochet...
...sponsored the remarkable Committee on Cooperation for Peace, which sought information about political prisoners, gave them and their families what legal help it could, tried to find jobs for released prisoners, and arranged some departures from the country. The committee operated under the patronage and protection of Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, the Archbishop of Santiago, who maintains a brisk and good-humored air despite the travails of his flock and his own delicate position. It seemed something of a miracle the committee could function at all, and Pinochet has asked the cardinal to disband it, alleging that it served Communist...
Architects of the fiasco were General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, the army chief of staff, and his brother-in-law General Alejandro Soils Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters...
...chance to prune Lisbon's press, or impose a censorship plan, is another question. The seven state-owned dailies are believed to be losing both readers and revenues, while Jorno Novo has been gaining circulation, from an initial 40,000 last spring to some 100,000. Raul Rego, whose República was seized by its Communist printers, plans to launch a new Socialist paper next month, aptly named O Luta (The Struggle). By then, however, there may well be a new Premier, and many Portuguese journalists hope that covering the news will no longer be such a struggle...