hoe of the few major news-
it Publishing in Chile under
: 80 gata is the notorious Santi-
mi pit wing daily, El Mercurio,
ee first saw the light of day
be Ntury ago in Valparaiso and
pe its career by printing
pee cial information. Its
Publisher was Agustin Ed-
s McClure, who made his
ne in banking and mining.
€ present owner, McClure’s
ndson Agustin Edwards East-
Dap ae Chile after the Popu-
‘, nity Government came to
5 €r and found himself in the
ton, Eastman’s ties with U.S.
Opolies are such that he be-
dent an executive vice presi-
of Pepsicola.
Uercutio's brother papers,
A Sp, Itimas Noticias and La
Dtalinn also both represent ca-
“and ¢ and right wing causes
| Seetign esustently supported Ultra
se ditions which openly called for
letacs and a coup against
Stren €s government. The
der u8th-of El Mercurio was evi-
. = 1964 when Frei came to
act Sidency. His first public
torial 88 to visit the paper’s edi-
huppin ences tobe photographed
Ripe Re its director, Rene Silva
Cutio's @ known fascist. El Mer-
Sum. Policy toward Allende is
0 up in an_ editorial
veto, after Popular Unity’s
consti, His respect for the
Noth ution is a pretense and
Nak more...”
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stretches far beyond the three
papers into stock companies,
banking and magazine publish-
ing. One of his firms, Lord Co-
chrane Publishing, grinds out
love magazines, “women’s” ma-
gazines, teen-age and children’s
magazines and one pornography
sheet.

Before the Allende govern-
ment came to power, Edwards
was president of the Inter-
American Society of the Press,
United Breweries Co., La Chi-
leana Insurance Company and
Edwards Bank. Some of these
companies are run in partner-
ship with Rockefeller’s Interna-
tional Basic Economy Corpora-
tion.

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FUNERAL TURNS INTO PROTEST

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Prope: insight into the Chilean
i resistance is contained
S moving account by Time

Tag
fers” Of Pablo Neruda’s

Dean tdreds of mourners ap-
home A the Communist poet’s
Mocesg; Santiago for the funeral
tal oO" to the capital’s Gen-

metery. In bold defiance

of the junta’s anti-Marxist cam-
paign and in obvious disregard
for their own liberty, they
chanted leftist slogans as the
cortege marched slowly to the
mausoleum. Softly at first, then
louder and louder, they sang the
Internationale. Some _ shouted
Neruda y Allende, un solo com-
batiente (Neruda and Allende,
one fighter)!

OTTAWA — A four-man Pol-
ish forestry mission led by Po-
land’s Minister of Forestry and
Wood Industries recently visit-
ed Canada, and discussed sub-
stantial forestry developments
in Poland and the capability of
Canadian suppliers and consult-
ing engineers to share in this
development.

Mr. Popko and his delegation
visited equipment manufactur-
ers and consulting engineering
firms in the Montreal and Van-
couver areas to determine the
expertise available in Canada
for the design and supply of the
highly sophisticated equipment
and engineering services requir-
ed for pulp and paper and saw-
mill plants.

A new series of
top Soviet films

TORONTO—Soviet film buffs
in this city will have the oppor-
tunity to see 10 vintage Soviet
films during the fall and winter,
in addition to the regular Fri-

‘day showings at the Canada-

USSR Association centre. :
The following films will be
shown Monday evenings at
Honest Ed’s Poor Alex Theatre:
Oct. 8, Eisenstein’s The Bat-
tleship Potemkin (1925); Oct.

15, Pudovkin’s Storm Over Asia.

(1927); Oct. 22, Eisenstein’s
Alexander Nevsky (1938); Oct.
29, Ptushko’s The Stone Flower
(1946); Nov. 5, Petrov’s The In-
spector General (1953); Nov:
12, Pyryev’s The Idiot (1958);
Nov. 19, Chukrai’s Ballad of a
Soldier (1960); Nov. 26 DeMieli
and Talankin’s Summer to Re-
member (1960); Dec. 3, Hei-
fetz’s The Lady with a Little
Dog (1961); Dec. 10, Kozint-
sev’s Hamlet (1964).

Soviet Union severs
relations with Chile

UNITED NATIONS — In
breaking diplomatic relations
with junta-ruled Chile, the Sov-
iet Union pointed out that after
the coming to power of the mili-
tary junta in Chile and with the
connivance of the new Chilean
authorities an intolerable situa-
tion has been created for Soviet
institutions and citizens work-
ing in Chile on the basis of
inter - state or inter - agency
agreements and treaties.

“A provocative campaign
against the Soviet Union is be-
ing fanned in the country, anti-
Soviet sentiments are heing
whipped up, and there have
been acts of arbitrariness and
violence against Soviet institu-
tions and citizens in Chile.”

The Soviet Government,
through its Mission to the Unit-
ed Nations, charges that, “‘mem-
bers of the crew of the Soviet
ship, Ekliptika were arrested,
subjected to rude insults and
manhandling on September 11.
Despite persistent demands by
the USSR Embassy, the military
junta created groundless obstac-
les for a week, preventing the
transfer of members of the
Soviet crew to the Soviet traw-
ler, Stanyukovich, this creating
a serious danger to the life and
health of Soviet seamen.”

The Soviet Union says that
lawless acts “were committed
against a group of Soviet per-
formers in Chile. The office of
Novosti press agency was raid-
ed and searched,” and material
damage inflicted. The TASS re-
presentative was subjected to
similar actions, and Soviet
workers were arrested at a
house-building complex. (pres-
ented by the Soviet Government

‘as a gift to the Chilean people).

There have been searches of the
homes of Soviet citizens. ~
“These actions of the Chilean

military,” the Soviet Govern-

ment states, “the arbitrariness,
lawlessness and mockery in re-

yy : g .
Fascist tanks attack the Moneda
‘in Santiago.

spect of Soviet institutions and
citizens sent to Chile on the re-
quest of the Popular Unity gov-
ernment to render friendly aid

‘to the Chilean people, are a rude

violation of generally recogniz-
ed norms of international law,
deprive the Embassy of the
USSR in Chile of the necessary
conditions for the discharge of
its functions, threaten the sec-
urity of Soviet citizens and
undermine the basis of normal
relations between the USSR and
Chile.”

It says that the Soviet Gov-
ernment regards as impossible
the further presence of the
USSR Embassy in Chile and
states that it severs diplomatic
relations with Chile and recalls
from Chile the Ambassador of
the USSR and the staff of the
Soviet Embassy. —

The Soviet Government de-
mands that Chilean authorities
“do not obstruct in any way the
departure of Soviet citizens
from Chile” and that they also
“ensure their full security.” It
states that “similar conditions
will be ensured for the staff of
the Chilean -Embassy in Mos-
cow.”

More insights on Sakharov from a CIA ‘Specialist’ on USSR

a yy ERIK BERT
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Times T 26, to the New York
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ter rene Way wrote his letter af-
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Sakharo Teported that Andrei
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‘ember i Interview today (Sep-
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: riters, Vladimir

Maximov, and Alexander Ga-
litch on September 18.

But the message did not ap-
pear in the U.S. press. Redda-
way, and the Times (belatedly),
have resolved the problem.

’ Sakharov’s message to the
junta said, according to Redda-
way:

“Worried about the fate of the
outstanding contemporary poet
and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature, Pablo Neruda, we
appeal to you to fulfill the duties
of the position you have occu-
pied and to safeguard the free-
dom and security of your re-
markable citizen. One may
agree or not agree with his
world view and political posi-
tion, but by his whole life and
creative work he has proved to
mankind the sincerity and puri-
ty of the beliefs he has _ pro-
pounded.

“Pablo Neruda is not only a
great Chilean poet but also the
pride of all Latin American lite-
rature. His glorious name Is !n-
dissolubly bound up with the
struggle of the peoples of Latin
America for their spiritual and
national liberation. The violent
death of this great man would
darken for a long time what
your Government has proclaim-
ed as the rebirth and consolida-
tion of Chile. a

“Humanity and magnanimity
on your part to one of your
best fellow countrymen would
undoubtedly promote normal-

ization ‘and relaxation of ten-
sions both in your own country
and in the whole world.”

Reddaway commented angrily
that the attacks on Sakharov
present him “as a supporter of
the junta.” He denounced the
“distortions involved in these
attacks.” He noted that the
Times’ reporter, Shabad, has
quoted “only one sentence from
the appeal itself...

“The central concerns of this
appeal (when read in full) are
too obvious to need commen-
tary. None of them has any-
thing in common with the gross
distortions” perpetrated by
Pravda, Tass, Humanité, Volks-
stimme and Unita.”

Sakharov’s appeal, “when
read in full,” suggests that Sha-
bad was well-advised not to
quote it, for it shows Sakharov
to be a most abject creature.

Let us consider, first, not
what Sakharov said about Pablo
Neruda but about the junta. For,
if he grovels before the junta,
to what point is his glorifica-
tion? :

Sakharov and his buddies ap-
pealed to the four fascist gene-
rals to “fulfill the duties of' the
position you have occupied.”

He called on the to “safe-
guard the freedom and security”
of Pablo Neruda.

What are, in Sakharov’s eyes,
the “duties” of fascist generals?
Do they really include, as he
seems to think, safeguarding the

“freedom and security” of a
Communist poet? Sakharov ask-
ed the generals to forget Neruda

was a Communist, apparently:

under the impression that the
“duties” of fascist generals in-
clude safeguarding the “freedom

_and security’ of a non-Com-

munist poet.
Sakharov called: on the four
fascist generals to recall that

they had “proclaimed .. . the
rebirth and consolidation of
Chile.”

No one else in the world, out-
side of fascist ranks, has solid-
arized himself with the junta’s
proclamation of its goals as the
“rebirth and consolidation of
Chile.”

Sakharov appealed to the
“humanity and magnanimity” of
the four fascist generals. Who
else in the world, outside fascist
ranks, would dare assert the
“humanity and magnanimity” of
the fascist murderers in Chile?

Sakharov advised the four
fascist generals to “promote
normalization and _ relaxation”
of the nation whose democracy

they had just destroyed, whose.

trade union movement they had
outlawed, whose President they
had murdered, whose Commun-
ist and Socialist leaders were
being hunted by its murder
bands.

Reddaway’s defense of Sakha-
rov is not in_itself remarkable.
He is a senior research fellow
at. Columbia University’s Re-

search Institute on Communist
Affairs, a quasi-espionage insti-
tution.

Prior to that he was a “Soviet
specialist” at the London
School of Economics. He had
been part of a group mobilized
by the Central Intelligence
Agency to advise its Radio Li-
berty broadcasting.

Radio Liberty said in 1971
that “. . .. the advice — and
creative contribution — of the
outside academic specialists in
Soviet affairs and communica-
tions have played a major part”
in RL’s work. :

The U.S. Library of Congress’
analysis of Radio Liberty, un-
dertaken at the request of Sena-
tor J. W. Fulbright, pointed to
one such example of RL’s co-
option of “outside” anti-Soviet-
eers. :

“Perhaps, one of the most

_ recent illustrations of this prac-

tice was the panel broadcast
discussion held in London, Eng-
land on April 23, 1971. Partici-
pants in this panel were some of
the Western world’s leading
Soviet (anti-Soviet)—-EB speci-
alists,” the Library of Congress
study said.

One of the specialists in this
CIA-RL. discussion was Peter
Reddaway, Sakharov’s cham-
pion. This political background

‘of Reddaway was not revealed

by The New York Times.
—Daily World

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