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Havana has been a haven for exiled revolutionaries for more than a decade. Algiers, too, has been a trendy fixture on the circuit for a few years. Now the Chilean capital of Santiago, home of Latin America's first freely elected Marxist government, is fast becoming the In place with the Out crowd...
...killed there in 1967. When he was released a month ago by the leftist military regime that recently seized power in La Paz, Debray had served nearly four years of a 30-year sentence for aiding Che's abortive attempt to stir up a peasant revolt. In Santiago, he has been working on a chronicle of the Allende regime and tells newsmen that he has "matured" since his days as a champion of violent revolution...
...long Chile's popularity will last is uncertain. Santiago would doubtless rate more stars than Havana in any Bakuninist Baedeker. The four Quebec terrorists who were flown to the Cuban capital last month in exchange for the release of British Trade Commissioner James Cross were grousing about their future in Castro's hardscrabble country even before they arrived. Still, Chile is not even trying to match the amenities available in Algeria, where President Houari Boumedienne provides visiting revolutionaries with housing, $500 a month in expenses, air-travel vouchers and even artillery practice. After the initial abrazos, Chilean officials...
...fast enough. Aroused by his hellfire-and-brimstone campaign promises to take away Chile's wealth from monopoly capitalists and give it back to the people, the people are growing restive. Wildcat strikes have erupted all over the country, and squatters have seized 4,250 new apartments in Santiago alone. Street fighting between leftists and extreme leftists has broken out in several cities. Throughout the country, bands of radical students and workers have been marching through the streets to demand faster government action against foreign interests...
BARKLIE HENRY Santiago, Chile...