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With their Italian silk suits, Swiss watches and flashing grins, the happy foreigners stood out conspicuously in Santiago, Chile. They came from Swaziland, Barbados, Fiji and other developing states to confront representatives of richer industrial countries in the third
Overworked Women. Business was so brisk in nightclubs that prices were raised from $ 1.05 to $ 1.55 a drink. The Chilean central bank reported that the delegates changed an average of only $3 a day into escudos at the official rate. Meanwhile, the visitors brought a boom to Santiago's money black market, where dollars were exchanged for three to four times the official rate. A popular brothel located in a downtown office building reported its business up 50% during the UNCTAD meeting and had to add four women to its overworked regular staff...
Curiously, the greatest party lovers were the Chinese. Their embassy receptions, awash with plenty of mind-numbing mao-tai liquor, were the most popular social events in Santiago. But the Chinese were always tough-bargaining businessmen. Last week three of them huddled with three Chilean girls in a combination bar-brothel and were told that the price of the action would be $75 each, double the pre-UNCTAD days. The Chinese held a hasty conference and made a decision: they would share one girl...
...farms and illegally occupied 2,000 or so apartments in government housing projects this year. Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, has been reluctant to move decisively against the squatters for fear of further weakening his already shaky left-wing coalition of support. Last week, a massive protest parade in Santiago by an estimated 400,000 people-the largest street rally in Chilean history-demonstrated that he also faces mounting pressure from the moderate right...
...increasing pressure from both the right and the far left. Though he has recently refused permission for opposition groups to hold demonstrations, he agreed to allow a massive protest march by Christian Democrats and Nationalists this week on the eve of a U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Santiago. In southern Chile, illegal land seizures inspired by MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) have continued at the rate of between 60 and 100 per month. Allende has spoken out against the seizures, but in order to avoid antagonizing his supporters on the extreme left, he has not called...