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...woman in a shootout in Santiago. The victims were identified as suspects in last month's assassination of the military governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, a crime the government blames on leftists-and many Chileans blame on rightists. Even though Interior Minister Sergio Onofre Jarpa called for the formation of "neighborhood defense committees" to disrupt the demonstrations, thousands took part in the protests. At least five people were killed...
...violence ended a promising attempt by Jarpa to deal with the opposition on a more conciliatory basis. A former senator of the right-wing National Party, he was appointed by Pinochet last month in a Cabinet shakeup. Jarpa met twice with Democratic Alliance leaders to discuss such demands as changing the regime's ruinously monetarist economic policies and allowing elections well in advance of 1989, when Pinochet's term is scheduled to end. Jarpa agreed to suspend a 1973 emergency state law that imposed a nationwide curfew and to begin inviting over 1,000 leading political figures...
While some members of the Democratic Alliance believe that Jarpa is committed to reform, others have charged that his real aim is to divide the opposition. Indeed, Pinochet has begun to show signs of hardening his attitude toward resigning. "I do not think of leaving the presidency before 1989," he said defiantly last week. Ominously comparing this year's unrest with the last days of Allende, Pinochet added: "I am in a more cautious position, but if they [the opposition] push me, be sure we will get the state of siege. And harsher than before...
President Rios picked a new Cabinet. There had been loud demands from the left for the removal of Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa, who opposed rupture with the Axis. He was no Nazi sympathizer himself, but he feared Axis attack. Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa was replaced by Chile's Ambassador to Uruguay Joaquin Fernandez, longtime diplomat and good friend of President Rios...
Outstanding figures were Chile's President, Juan Antonio Ríos; Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa; Chilean Public Health Minister Dr. Miguel Etchebarne (Congress president); Osvald Stein of the International Labor Office in Montreal; and Guest Nelson Rockefeller of the U.S. They convened as the first Inter-American Conference on Social Security...