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Mass Prison. Reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch from Santiago: "It is clear that we are not seeing a caretaker government. The most optimistic person I have talked to does not expect the country to be ruled again by civilians before 1977 at the earliest...
...pursuit of its concept of normalcy, the military herded 7,000 suspects into Santiago's soccer stadium for lack of a better mass prison elsewhere. Among the prisoners were several Americans, including Adam Garrett-Schesch, 31, a University of Wisconsin history researcher, and his wife Patricia, 30, a sociologist. Released and allowed to leave Chile, the couple contended that between 400 and 500 captives had been shot during the time they were held in the stadium...
...Santiago's General Cemetery where he awaited the cortege of Poet Pablo Neruda (see following story), Rauch noticed on the wall of an adjacent morgue a list of 300 people whose bodies were to be claimed by relatives...
Carter said he was walking down a street in Santiago one day and police appeared on both sides of him and began to bombard a building where a sniper was hiding...
...left just before the coup, but the five days we spent in Santiago were filled with excitement. There was rioting and shooting all week and you literally had to walk around with a handkerchief over your face because of the tear gas," Peter Carter, coach of the team and a student at the Law School, said yesterday...