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Despite the roundup of Allende sympathizers and the sporadic shootouts, Santiago and the rest of Chile last week were gradually returning to a kind of normalcy. Shops were open, food was available again as truckers who had struck against Allende returned to work. The curfew was shortened to allow Chileans to restock pantries stripped bare by the shortages of the Allende regime and later by the fighting in the streets. Early in the week only a few planes carrying foreign journalists and privileged evacuees moved in and out of Santiago's secondary Los Cerrillos airport. But by Friday, commercial...
...week's end six of Santiago's nine newspapers were back on the streets, although their pages were subject to strict censorship. One of the city's three television channels was also operating, under close military supervision. And in a very modest way, politics had started up again. At a press conference, Patrick Alywin, president of the Christian Democrats, dared to challenge a statement by one of the junta's leaders -namely, that the military was considering a new constitution. Alywin said that the Christian Democrats, even though they backed the junta, did not believe that...
...overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...
Signed Copies. Just when it seemed that some mobility and communication would be restored for reporters in Santiago, the junta introduced censorship. Quickly labeled "file now, die later" by the journalists, the system required reporters to deposit signed copies of all their files with the censor for possible use as "judicial evidence." The punishment for "false" reporting, spokesmen said, might be "the opposite of being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message...
Last week those who had been waiting in Argentina were able to fly into Santiago, carrying with them salamis, hams, chocolate and liquor. How easy a time they will have is uncertain. The junta hardly seems hospitable to the press, foreign or domestic. Even after censorship was lifted, three journalists, Marlise Simons from the Washington Post, Georges Dupoy from Le Figaro and Pierre Kalfon of Le Monde, were arrested for stories they had written. They were later released. And, of the nine Chilean papers published before the coup, only three were permitted to appear last week...