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...said Air Force Commander-in-Chief General Fernando Matthei. In what looked like a possible crack in the military monolith supporting Pinochet, Matthei claimed that "at no moment were there clashes in the neighborhoods that I visited." Almost simultaneously, retired Army General Roberto Viaux Marambio, a right-winger and hitherto firm supporter of Pinochet, issued an open protest against the government crackdown. "I do not want to keep silent lest it imply complicity," said Viaux. "The armed forces have been employed to repress the call of national protest." The signs of dissension in the military came after a week...
...lifted the state of emergency that had been in effect since the murder last month of the army commander, General René Schneider. Ten men have been charged in the case, including retired General Roberto Viaux Marambio, who led an abortive rightist army uprising in October 1969. Addressing 80,000 people at a football stadium later in the week, Allende described the assassination as an example of "the criminal lunacy of those who have always exploited the people." As for the future, "the anti-capitalist movement has assumed power in Chile," he said, and would swiftly create "a republic...
...student and faculty stayed away from classes Thursday, and about 100 students occupied a classroom building to persuade the Board that Viaux should remain as Garland's president...
...Viaux repeated to the students yesterday his intention to resign as of June...
...student said that in Viaux's eight years as president, he has greatly improved Garland scholastically and had "tremendous support among students and faculty...