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...Santiago for a scientific meeting at the University in the Spring of 1971. At that time friends took me to meet President Allende. I said to him "You are a physician." "Yes,"--he replied. "Like Juan Negrin." I said--speaking of the ill-fated President of the Spanish Republic. "Ah!" said Allende. "I hope that this time it will end better...
...Chilean, I and most of the Chileans living and studying in Massachusetts, together with such wide and representative organizations as. The World Council of Churches. The Organization of American States. The Catholic Church of Santiago. The World Bank Review The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Governments of Mexico, Sweden, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Italy (among others) have a very different view of contemporary Chile from the one held by Nicolas Bilbikopf (The Mail, January...
Thanks to this arms race, tension has already begun building on the Peru-Chile border. Lima's military strongmen are believed to want to retake the Ta-rapaca province which Peru lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Peru has its new Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though...
...honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird, near-surrealist climax the Cuban President announces his resignation ("due to the success of the guerilla groups in the Guantanamo and Santiago areas") at his glittering New Year's Eve party. Hordes of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns spill out of the ballroom, down the marble steps of the collonnaded Presidential Palace, stampeding to the relative safety of the American Embassy compound. (Michael, of course, has his own chauffeur...
Constitutionality and national unity form the image in which the takeover itself is cast, despite reports of bloody battles in the streets of Santiago, the nation's capital. "The workers didn't fight for Allende. He thought all workers would appear in his support, but they didn't. Only "foreigners" and "extremists who shot against the army" were killed, Heitmann says, in accordance with the state of siege called by the military...