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...Santiago's middle-roading daily La Prensa ahemmed: "Chile, one is accustomed to men dancing with women...
WELCOME TO YOUR HOME: CHILE Said the cheery banners at Santiago's Pudahuel airport. From the start of his two-week visit, Cuba's Fidel Castro did not seem to be at home at all. A 21-gun salute boomed out as he walked down the ramp of his four-jet llyushin, but the speech that Castro had labored over on the long flight from Havana stayed in the pocket of his olive-green fatigues. Silenced by Chilean protocol, which allows only heads of state to deliver arrival addresses (as Cuba's Premier, Castro is technically only...
...first appearance anywhere outside Cuba in seven years, and his first in South America in twelve.* But instead of playing to the grandstand, Castro kept pretty much to himself, which was apparently just what his host had prescribed. Castro spent two quick days laying wreaths and touring factories in Santiago, then set off on an extensive trip covering the spiny Andean country's entire 2,600-mile length. Everywhere he went, Castro ducked reporters, protesting that he was "under protocol...
...wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle in 1964 and Queen Elizabeth in 1968. In Antofagasta, where there are three universities, Castro drew only 400 to a student rally...
...just another striving nationalist. The Communist countries have been careful not to embrace Allende too eagerly, for fear that they might do him more harm than good. For that reason, Fidel Castro refused an invitation to Allende's inauguration last year; he is due to arrive in Santiago for his first visit some time this month...