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...Santiago's Plaza Italia was peaceful, orderly and well organized by five of the nation's leading opposition groups. All that did not prevent the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from launching one of its most vivid displays of brutality since Chileans began staging monthly "days of national protest" against the Pinochet regime four months ago. As some 3,000 demonstrators chanted, "He's going to fall, he's going to fall," riot police armed with truncheons, tear gas and water cannons fell upon the demonstrators and beat them savagely. "This is madness, madness!" objected...
...government had clearly been braced for violence. A day before the demonstration, police killed two men and a woman in a shootout in Santiago. The victims were identified as suspects in last month's assassination of the military governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, a crime the government blames on leftists-and many Chileans blame on rightists. Even though Interior Minister Sergio Onofre Jarpa called for the formation of "neighborhood defense committees" to disrupt the demonstrations, thousands took part in the protests. At least five people were killed...
...elections well in advance of 1989, when Pinochet's term is scheduled to end. Jarpa agreed to suspend a 1973 emergency state law that imposed a nationwide curfew and to begin inviting over 1,000 leading political figures to return from exile. Two of the exiles flew into Santiago last week and were greeted by more than 5,000 supporters chanting anti-Pinochet slogans, an event that only months earlier would have brought a brutal response from police. Jarpa also discussed relaxing the six-year-old ban on political parties. Though no promises were made, many Chileans expect that...
...previous Saturday, at Santiago's Circulo Español, the city's largest club, an overflow crowd of 1,500 gathered, ostensibly to honor Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. A former Foreign Minister under President Eduardo Frei, Valdés, 63, used the occasion to unveil a new coalition of Chile's five main parties, excluding the Communists. Calling itself the Democratic Alliance, the group demanded that Pinochet give way to a provisional government leading to elections within 18 months...
...expanded the Herald's domestic and foreign bureau system to its present bases in Atlanta, New York City, Washington, Jerusalem, Peking, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro and El Salvador, as well as adding a correspondent on Latin America based in Washington. The Herald's coverage of Central America is generally lauded as alert and thorough. The paper was among the first to launch a weekly business and financial supplement as well as a Sunday magazine, Tropic...