Word: santiagos
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...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...
DIED. Eduardo Frei Montalva, 71, former President of Chile (1964-70) and longtime leader of its Christian Democratic Party; from complications after an operation; in Santiago. A symbol of the U.S. determination in the 1960s to prevent Communist takeovers in Latin America and achieve reforms democratically, Frei won the 1964 election against self-professed Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens with considerable help from the CIA, but his efforts at reform were thwarted...
...that appeared in all Guatemala's major newspapers, the national police had taken only seven days to solve the murder of Father Stanley Rother, 46, the red-bearded Oklahoma-born missionary who was found dead on the floor of his rectory last month in the mountain village of Santiago Atitlán. Three Indians from the area were arrested and charged with the killing, which authorities said was committed during a burglary...
...though, that the arrests were a frame-up to placate the U.S. According to "official sources" cited by Guatemalan newspapers, the police were led to the killers' trail largely by the testimony of one witness: Sister Ana Maria Gonzales Arias, a Mexican nun working as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán. Sister Gonzales was said to have told officials that she saw "various armed men" wearing hoods enter the church, where they were discovered by Father Rother apparently while they were "seeking to rob the church's money...
Last week, after attending a traditional Indian fiesta in Santiago Atitlán, Father Rother died among "his people." Nuns found him in his rectory, lying in a pool of blood. Witnesses said he had been shot twice, once in the left temple and once in the left cheekbone, by three men wearing ski masks. His body was covered with welts and bruises, suggesting that he had put up a struggle. A strapping "Oklahoma farm boy," in the words of a friend, he had said that no would-be abductors would ever take him alive...