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This week's cover story deals with the election of Salvador Allende to the presidency of Chile, the first country ever to choose of its own elective will an avowed Marxist as its President. How this came about, and its likely effect on the rest of Latin America, was reported by David Lee, with the assistance of Kay Huff and Jerry Hannifin. The article itself was written by William Smith, researched by Genevieve Wilson and Sara Medina and edited by Ronald Kriss...
...ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
...prospects are that Soviet diplomats will be seeing more such delegations in the future, particularly if Marxist Candidate Salvador Allende takes over in Chile. "The road-as the poet said-is made by walking," a leftist guerrilla noted in Uruguay last week. Chile and Bolivia, the guerrilla added, "will increase the number of walkers. Sooner or later they will harvest success or failure, but inevitably they will find the way toward power and revolution, and that's what really matters." That may not be what Latin America needs but for the next few years it is likely...
Died. Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, 91, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who served as a papal nuncio in Chile and Brazil for 27 years, then acted briefly as chief executive of the Vatican interim administration after the deaths of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and Pope John XXIII in 1963; of kidney disease; in Rome...
...Fidel Castro's disgust, however, the Russians have forsworn attempts to stir up revolution in the hemisphere in favor of the so-called via pacifica-or peaceful way. That policy has been paying off handsomely, notably in Chile, whose Moscow-bankrolled Communist Party backed Marxist Dr. Salvador Allende, winner of a plurality in the recent presidential election. If he is voted in by the Chilean Congress next month as expected, he would become the first Communist-supported candidate for President to win a free election...