Word: valparaiso
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...told her. "The situation has become very grave. The navy has revolted and I am going to stay here." Allende was right. Even before the junta's troops surrounded the palace, the navy had announced that it had taken over and sealed off the port city of Valparaiso, 75 miles away. Marines from Valparaiso were advancing on the capital to join the soldiers, airmen and carabineros commanded by leaders of the coup...
Many responsible Chileans are already beginning to wonder how the military would respect civil liberties. Recently, there have been reports that enlisted navymen loyal to Allende have been not only arrested but tortured for their opposition to coup-minded officers. A group of marines broke into a Valparaiso radio station, where wives of the imprisoned sailors were taking part in a forum sponsored by the Socialist Party, and arrested all the participants. When Socialist Deputies called on the naval commander of the district to protest, he simply refused to see them...
...congressional by-election involved Allende's home province of Valparaiso in central Chile. In last fall's presidential balloting, Allende himself ran a close second in the normally conservative Christian Democratic area. This time, he had reason to hope that his coalition's candidate would win big. In a bid for local favor, Allende had transferred his official residence from Santiago to Valparaiso's city hall during the Chilean summer. When an earthquake hit the district last month, government aid arrived with unwonted haste -and so did Allende to inspect the damage...
Last Chance. To no avail. The voters turned down the young (30) Popular Unity candidate, and handed the Valparaiso seat to middle-reading Dr. Oscar Marín, 62, a physician. Marín campaigned on the line that "this may be the last chance for the people to say to Dr. Allende that we want social changes, but with personal freedom and without Marxist sectarianism." Marín's margin-4,637 votes in a total of 278,263 -showed the power of the Chilean women's vote, which tends to be conservative. As one of Allende...
...that Chile will not allow the Soviet Union or any other power to use its territory for military purposes. He is angry over several recent slights by the U.S., including the Nixon Administration's refusal to allow the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise to pay a good-will visit at Valparaiso last February...