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Situated in a rundown commercial section of Santiago, the Valdivia appears ordinary enough from the outside. It is the interior, with its 54 varied, exotic suites designed by Architect Daniel Zamudio and the hotel's owner Guillermo Mella, that distinguishes the place from other quickie havens. Says Owner Mella: "There is poetry here." There is also discretion. Cars glide quietly through a back gate, park in a row of partitioned stalls. A middle-aged matron in a white nurse's uniform greets the couple, leads them down a corridor lined with a rock garden and waterfalls...
...downtown commercial district of Santiago, a middle-class businessman shakes his head and declares sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...
...most troubled area is the province of Cautín, 400 miles south of Santiago in the heart of Chile's farming belt. Often at the instigation of the radical group M.I.R. (for Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario), peasants have occupied at least 350 farms, some too small to be legally expropriated. Many of the raiders are impoverished Mapuche Indians who have lived in squalid villages since their tribe was conquered by the Chileans in 1881 and are all too eager to settle a score with the "huincas" (white men). Allende dispatched agriculture Minister Jacques Chonchol to the province...
Fearful that illegal takeovers may spread, Chile's middle and upper classes are becoming increasingly self-conscious about overt displays of wealth. Los Leones, one of Santiago's most elegant country clubs, has opened its manicured golf course and pine-shaded swimming pool to working-class children at least once a week ort "días populares...
There is considerable skepticism as to whether Chile's masses will continue to support Allende's "revolution" when their turn comes to make sacrifices. A current joke making the rounds in Santiago's cocktail circuit has a government official explaining the "new Chile" to a peasant. "If you have two houses, the state takes one and you keep the other," says the official. "I understand," replies the peasant. "If you have two cars, the same," the official continues. His listener again nods. "It is the same if you have two chickens," the official adds, but the peasant...