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Maximum Alert. Violence was not altogether unexpected. Two days before the congressional vote. General Rene Schneider was shot and gravely wounded by a small band of still unidentified terrorists. As he drove to his office along a narrow one-way street, his black Mercedes was suddenly blocked by four vehicles. While one young man smashed the rear window of the Mercedes with a small sledgehammer, another fired eight times at the general with a .45-cal. automatic pistol, and then escaped...
...Schneider was rushed to the Santiago Schneider was rushed to the Santiago Military Hospital, where surgeons worked for 90 minutes to remove three bullets from his chest, neck and forearm. That night he suffered a massive hemorrhage, and the following day remained near death. While police erected roadblocks around Santiago, President Frei placed the 90,000 men of the armed forces and carabineros on maximum alert...
Allende and his Popular Unity coalition, which includes Communists and other leftists, blamed "ultra right-wing groups in league with foreign elements who see their interests affected." The Christian Democrats accused "fascist elements." Most observers agreed that Schneider, who was a friend of the President-elect, had been working hard to assure a smooth transfer from Frei to Allende, who is to take office Nov. 4. General Schneider had announced that the army would support whichever candidate the Congress approved, thereby appearing to minimize the danger of a military coup in the event of Allende's election. His stand...
...final approach to Cairo, the demolition expert asked Stewardess Augusta Schneider for some matches. Handing him a pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected...
...DAVID J. SCHNEIDER Baltimore...