Word: santiagos
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...winter rain slanted coldly down into the crowds, but not enough to dampen the homecoming. Nearly 500,000 cheering chilenos lined the nine-mile route from Los Cerrillos airport into downtown Santiago, waving their red, white and blue colors and chanting "Frei-Frei! Chile-Chile!" Smiling, tearful with gratitude, President Eduardo Frei was home after a 22-day goodwill tour through Italy, France, England and West Germany...
...three-man OAS peace commission sat behind a hotel-dining room table in the provincial Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, and for nearly five hours listened patiently to a stream of attorneys, labor leaders, businessmen, doctors, politicians and housewives. Some supported the loyalist cause of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, firmly in command of 95% of the country; others pleaded for Rebel Leader Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, insisting, "We are not Communists." At last the OAS team departed-to start again in another town. "It's all beginning to sound like a broken...
...knew of the Castroite involvement is unclear. The fact remains that in the past few weeks, according to intelligence sources, considerable numbers of Cuban-trained Dominicans have been slipping across the Windward Passage. Last week three boats loaded with about 65 Dominicans were seen leaving the Cuban port of Santiago. "I reported the conspiracy to President Reid for 15 or 20 consecutive days," says Wessin y Wessin, "but he paid no attention...
...stations to a new frenzy. Well-known members of three Communist groups, including the 14th of June, appeared on TV in Cuban-style uniforms to harangue the audience into action. They broadcast the addresses of loyalists' supporters and relatives. "Wessin's sister lives at 25 Santiago!" "Find the pilots' families and bring them to us!" And the mob did. Wives and children of air force pilots were dragged before TV cameras. Warned the announcer: "We are going to hold them at the bridge. If you strafe there, you kill them...
Elisa Grey de Abalos, 94, widow of a prominent Chilean politician, is mad. The Santiago mansion over which she reigns is rotting. Her housekeepers get drunk. Her nursemaid turns thief, gets pregnant. And her only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting...