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...dispute dates from 1952, when Ecuador, Chile and Peru signed the Declaration of Santiago, which reserved fishing privileges within a 200-mile offshore limit for their own citizens and for properly licensed foreign vessels. In the case of Ecuador, the license fee averages around $10,000 per boat, a reasonable enough sum since a single catch can be worth $225,000. But most nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, observe a twelve-mile limit. They fear that the Santiago Declaration will set a precedent severely inhibiting free access to large sections of the seas. Already, half a dozen...
...organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds of banging pans, patriotic songs and chants of "Chile, si! Cuba...
...injuries. The government's strong reaction served -perhaps intentionally-to exaggerate the extent of the disorders. Two opposition radio stations were shut down for "tendentious and alarming" reporting of the rioting. Toward dawn, Allende decreed a state of emergency, placing under army control the entire province of Santiago, which encompasses more than a third of Chile's 9,000,0.00 people. General Augusto Pinochet, the local garrison commander, imposed press censorship and a 1 a.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. "I hope the army does not have to come out," he warned, "because if they do it will...
...talent for turning adversity to advantage, however, and last week's events offered him an opportunity to put it to use. Speaking at a farewell rally for Castro on the day after the march, Allende lingered long and lovingly on Klein's comments and the Santiago riots. "This coincidence of words that are irresponsible and indiscreet but obviously deliberate, with recent internal happenings, is suspicious," he said ponderously. Translation: a damn-Yankee plot must have been behind the angry ladies with the empty pots...
...Chile, Castro was in effect admitting that the kind of violent revolution he has espoused is passe. He was also endorsing the Soviet via padfica policy of promoting Communism in Latin America through established parties and more or less conventional politics. Fidel made the point poignantly. While in Santiago, he laid wreaths on statues of two Latin American heroes-but he did not go near the one that had been erected for his old revolutionary comrade Che Guevara...