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...last Friday, four tanks and about 100 soldiers of Chile's 2nd Armored Corps surrounded the squat, gray Moneda Palace in downtown Santiago. As the troops released a hail of machine-gun, bazooka and rocket fire at the carabineros guarding the palace, pedestrians dove for cover; others scattered and ran wildly. Within minutes, seven people were dead and 22 wounded...
...will be filled by men. This strange odyssey, scheduled to begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along on Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra expeditions...
...Suck on that, you reactionaries!" crowed Santiago's pro-government newspaper, Puro Chile. It certainly had something to crow about: Socialist President Salvador Allende Gossens' Popular Unity Coalition had just managed a surprisingly strong showing in the national parliamentary elections against a special coalition of Christian Democrat and National parties...
Meanwhile, foreign currency reserves have been exhausted, inflation soared at a rate of 163% last year and this year's trade deficit is expected to surpass $500 million. Says one foreign economist in Santiago: "By July or August there will be some very hungry people in Chile." Says Allende: "There are higher values than a piece of meat or a kilogram of potatoes...
...Allende's sole bright spot is his success in cutting unemployment through a public works program; in greater Santiago, the figure declined from 8.3% at the end of 1971 to 3% last year. But the cost of the effort is recorded in red ink. The domestic budget ran a deficit of some $600 million last year on total spending of $ 1.4 billion...