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...more likely he will be to move harshly and quickly." Few American managers expect to remain very long. Allende neatly summed up his attitude toward the U.S. during a recent interview; when he was asked whether he would allow Americans to continue running a space-tracking station on Chile's Easter Island in the Pacific, he said with a grin: "Goodbye and good luck...
...popularly held belief last week: "If Allende chooses to be a thoroughgoing Socialist, the Chilean army will decide, with a big wink from the U.S., that its sacred duty is to oust the man." There is no doubt that Washington is deeply distressed by the prospect of a Communist Chile. Ranking Administration advisers predict that a Communist country on the South American mainland would have far more influence throughout the hemisphere than Castro's Communist island could ever hope to have. For all that, however, the U.S. is in no position to do anything about the Allende phenomenon...
...from the world by the Andes on one side and the Pacific on the other. Direct action is out, and the U.S. has little indirect leverage to apply. Cut off aid? This year's total, $2,500,000 in loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic screws? Chile sells little of its copper in the U.S.: 90% of it goes to Japan and Western Europe. In the end, says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, "the U.S. role in this entirely Chilean affair is to keep hands off-entirely." After all, Linowitz notes...
Some analysts predict, however, that if a Santiago-Havana Communist axis were to emerge by the 1972 elections, the Administration might well feel impelled to take action. But the question remains: what could it do? Chile's neighbors are facing the same puzzle...
...country's right-wing junta feels surrounded by sources of political contagion-the terrorist movement in Uruguay, the leftist military junta in Bolivia, and now a Communist threat on the other side of Argentina's rugged Andean frontier. The Argentines have no plans to charge into Chile, but they are keeping in close touch with Peru's generals in an effort to make ready for anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that it is "absurd...