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Murder Plot. To defend the junta's harsh rule, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán granted a lengthy interview to TIME'S Benjamin Gate and Rudolph Rauch in his suburban Santiago home. Leigh, 53, the most articulate of the junta's four members, showed Gate and Rauch a Soviet-made automatic rifle that, he said, was part of a leftist cache of weapons. The weapons were smuggled into Chile, presumably for use in "Plan Zeta," a supposed plot to murder top military leaders and rightists. The military did not learn of Plan Zeta...
...High Commission for Refugees, stopped in New York en route to Geneva last week with an account of widespread killings in Chile. "Every day, until the eve of the departure of the commission," said a group statement, "corpses were pulled out of the Mapocho River [which runs through Santiago] or brought in great quantities to the morgue, or left to decompose in the places where they were executed, as if to reinforce the effect of the terror." The jurists did not report on the number of persons slain since the Sept. 11 coup; an estimate based on official figures puts...
...Plan Zeta." The body of Frank Teruggi Jr., 24, an economics student from Des Plaines, Ill., was found in a Santiago morgue last week. Though the military denied any complicity in his death, Teruggi's roommate, David Hathaway, 24, a sociology student, claims that carabineros broke into their Santiago apartment on Sept. 20. The police, who probably suspected the students of being foreign "extremists," ransacked the apartment and hauled them off to Santiago's National Stadium, where 5,000 political prisoners are still being held. The last time Hathaway saw his friend alive was when Teruggi was being...
...Plan Zeta." It reportedly called for the execution of 17,000 right-wing and moderate Chileans, including high-ranking military officers, former President Eduardo Frei, anti-Allende union bosses, justices of the supreme court, lawyers and businessmen. A government official who spoke to TIME's Benjamin Cate in Santiago last week said that not all of the arms that were to have been used by the leftists for the executions have been found. That apparently is the reason why the search for weapons and "extremists" continues...
...behind this startlingly swift transformation were at first total strangers to most Chileans. Their faces are now as well known as Chile's soccer players, and something of their personal!ties has begun to emerge from the sleek, 23-story office building in downtown Santiago that serves as junta headquarters. The four leaders...