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Scarcely a week after they overturned the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens and seized power, the generals of Chile were acting rather like the colonels of Greece, or even like the cardboard military figures of a Costa-Gavras movie. They went methodically about eliminating traces of Allende's proposed evolution to socialism in matters both great and small. Snipers and suspected leftists were rounded up, and Marxist literature in bookstores was banned. Soldiers, suspecting long-haired civilians of leftist views, arbitrarily gave some of them haircuts. Barbershops were jammed as shaggy-tressed youths rushed to be sheared...
Despite the roundup of Allende sympathizers and the sporadic shootouts, Santiago and the rest of Chile last week were gradually returning to a kind of normalcy. Shops were open, food was available again as truckers who had struck against Allende returned to work. The curfew was shortened to allow Chileans to restock pantries stripped bare by the shortages of the Allende regime and later by the fighting in the streets. Early in the week only a few planes carrying foreign journalists and privileged evacuees moved in and out of Santiago's secondary Los Cerrillos airport. But by Friday, commercial...
Over 20 Harvard faculty members have appealed to the Nixon Administration and the United Nations to "exert the strongest pressure" on the new military government of Chile "to stop its reign of terror and to restore fundamental human rights...
...faculty members alleged that "arbitrary mass arrests, summary executions and all the other horrors of modern despotism are now the order of the day" in Chile...
John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on Latin American Studies, said yesterday that the purpose of the appeal is to delay and limit official American and worldwide support for the forces in power in Chile...