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...Santiago's modern Hotel Carrera has 18 unwilling guests. For Dimitri Alexandrovitch Zhukov, first & only Soviet Ambassador to Chile, the Carrera is where he came in; he stayed there when he arrived in April 1946. Now that Chile has broken with the U.S.S.R., Zhukov and his staff are ready to go home (TIME, Nov. 3). Every day Embassy First Secretary Nicolai Voronin trots a block to the Foreign Office to get permission to leave. Chile's answer: "All arrangements for leaving Moscow by the entire Chilean group must first be completed...
Sweepup. That night, police and soldiers began a nationwide roundup of Communists. Party big shots heard a radio news flash and, just in time, skedaddled. Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
Cleanup. Besides, it might not be necessary. According to Santiago gossip, González' anti-Communist action had already won the promise of a badly needed $40 million World Bank loan. Visiting U.S. industrialists, who have told González that they would be interested in investing in Chile if ever he got the best of his Commies, could watch the rapid climb of Chile's stockmarket last week and draw their own conclusions. Lota coal shares were up ten points in five days...
...next move was Yugoslavia's. Belgrade broke diplomatic relations with Chile, said it could not do business with a country whose foreign policy was dictated by an outside power (meaning the U.S.). Santiago gave it right back, said the break was O.K., pointedly added that the only Yugoslav official in Chile had already left the country...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...