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Recently the junta's Seguridad National (national police), making little progress in its bumbling search for the underground's top leaders, began rounding up some of the small fry. Evelyn, who was on the point of quitting her job to marry an American oilman, came under surveillance. In two months her widowed mother's house was searched twelve times by flying squads (and burglarized twice by thieves obviously untroubled by Seguridad patrolling). One day a friend saw a station wagon and a group of small, shabby men with blank expressions and Cuban heels outside Evelyn...
...fled to the house of Acción Democratica friends. After voluble discussions of her plight, they decided to move her to another house. Her new hosts were dismayingly hospitable. They gave parties and introduced the fugitive to their guests. Finally the underground supplied the information Evelyn needed: the Seguridad thought that she had information to spill, and would arrest her soon. After another long discussion, it was decided that she should seek asylum in the Chilean embassy...
...Have No Trouble." A.D. is the junta's triple migrain headache. It has underground cells everywhere, especially among students and oilworkers. The government employs an estimated 10,000 informers and agents, led by the Political and Social Brigade of the Seguridad Nacional, the federal police. Seguridad men are forever raiding the homes of known A.D. members without catching the men they want most, and without stopping clandestine A.D. newspapers...
Just before last week's bombings, the acting head of the Seguridad showed me his headquarters, discussing each section except the Political and Social Brigade. We whipped through that section so fast I was able to ask only two questions...
When six officers of the government's Seguridad Nacional dropped in, the Italians saw trouble ahead and pulled out-even though the cops immediately began mining for themselves. By last week the government had closed Uriman airport and prepared to force all miners to leave the area, a national mineral reserve. The Avequí rush, not nearly big enough to upset the international market, had almost run its course...