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...language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently viewing her more as a tourist than a diplomat, promised her "una gran bienvenida [a great...
...predictably shocked by the legalization of the party. Some ultrarightists, shouting "Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...
...abide by the rules of the democratic game. Some reproach us for what they call a moderate policy line ... but the path is narrow and any thoughtless act, any attitude that does not take reality into account could provoke catastrophic reactions for Spain and for democracy." Wary of fueling rightist anger, the party, cautiously, canceled a mass rally scheduled for early this week. The party's legendary heroine, Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri, also was forced to delay her return to Spain from a long exile in Moscow...
Somewhat to the right of the Communists, the Socialist Worker Party may garner close to 20%, while Fraga's rightist, neo-Franquista Alianza Popular is expected to poll a quarter of the vote. The most fluid situation is in the center. There the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and a broad coalition called Centro Democrático are still discussing whether to enter the election as a bloc. Their decision partly depends on whether Suarez chooses to head such a centrist alliance in order to blunt some of Fraga's appeal. The Premier, however, can sit out the election...
...Chile. Church sources say that more than 1,000 political prisoners have been killed by the harsh rightist regime of General Augusto Pinochet since the 1973 overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende. Thousands more are still in jail. A strict curfew is in effect, critical foreign journalists are regularly barred from the country, and its own press is tightly muzzled...