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Marta Neira, a 29-year-old model, was arrested last Dec. 9 in Santiago by DINA, Chile's brutal secret police. According to a prisoners' report smuggled out of the Pirque Women's Prison, when Marta was last seen inside the Quilen detention center on Christmas Eve 1974, her nose was broken and she had welts all over her body. She had been subjected to electric shocks and to sexual abuse...
Luis Guajardo Zamorano, 23, a cycling enthusiast and engineering student at the University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard...
...maui purpose behind last weekend's meeting in Stockholm between Soares and Western Europe's leading Social Democrats, who have given his party modest financial support. Soares has also developed good relations with such pragmatic Communist bosses as Italy's Enrico Berlinguer and Spain's Santiago Carrillo, who are wary of Cunhal's Stalinist tendencies. The Soviet Union and other East European nations have been more active in supplying the Communists with funds. Estimates of the amount range from an implausibly high $120 million a year to a more realistic $15 million...
...foremost strategist is Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo, 60, who has spent the past 36 years in exile, almost all of them in France. Last week in a joint declaration with Italian Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo indirectly criticized the Portuguese Communists: "Socialism can only exist through the development and realization of total democracy...
...noon, when the ships came within range of a tracking station in Santiago, Chile, one of Apollo's four television cameras began sending pictures of the history-making rendezvous. Plainly visible outside Apollo's left window were the curved earth, one of the large finger-like petals of the docking module and, off in the distance, the winged Soyuz. After a few moments of maneuvering, Stafford nudged Apollo up against Soyuz so gently that there was barely a jolt as the three interlacing fingers on each ship locked together. Later at a briefing in Moscow...