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WORLD NEWS

EX-DICTATOR’S WIFE IN GREECE FACES TRIAL

ATHENS — Despina Papadopoulos, wife of ousted dictator
George Papadopoulos has become the first member of the former
military regime to be prosecuted for illegal activities during her
husband’s seven-year rule.

Athens prosecutor Fotios Kritselis ordered a formal investigation
following preliminary findings that the 44-year-old Despina allegedly
committed fraud against the state by accepting a salary for seven
years from the Greek Intelligence Service without doing any work.

Greek newspaper reports said she was receiving up to $300 a
month.

BORDABERRY REJECTS APPEAL FOR URUGUAY FREEDOM

MONTEVIDEO — President Juan Maria Bordaberry, flanked on
both sides by military men, told Uruguay in a nationwide radio-TV

broadcast on Sept. 4 that political freedom will not be restored

in the country. Bordaberry seized dictatorial power with military
backing in June, 1973. He said he was rejecting an appeal by
100 political and professional leaders to end the ban on political
activity. When Bordaberry seized power, he abolished the Consti-
tution, Congress, the entire labor movement, and all political
parties, including the Communist Party. :

Uruguay previously had been known as “the Switzerland of
Latin America” and had enjoyed fairly complete bourgeois democ-

racy. Bordaberry said in his broadcast that politicians do not repre-
sent the people.

HUSSEIN AGREES TO PLO WEST BANK

BEIRUT — King Hussein of Jordan said he would agree to a
West Bank under control of the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) if other Arab states approve. The Jordanian monarch made
his statement in an interview published in the English-language
Beirut (Lebanon) Daily Star last week. He said the Palestinians
“can decide if they want Jordan and a Palestine, or if they want
a united state, federation, or a separate state for which they choose
the leadership. Jordan can either be a state responsible for the
libertion of its Occupied territories, or the Arab nation should tell
Jordan that the PLO is fully responsible for political and non-
political efforts regarding every inch of Palestinian soil.”

DUTCH OPPOSE HAIG AS NATO CHIEFTAIN

BRUSSELS — The government of the Netherlands opposes
appointment of Gen. Alexander Haig as supreme NATO com-
mander because he is too closely tied to ex-President Nixon, Dutch
Sovernment sources at NATO headquarters said on Sept. 4.

They said that Max van der Stoel, the Dutch Foreign Minister,
was sounding out European NATO member-states on joint opposi-
tion to Haig. His nomination to the NATO post must be approved
by all NATO members, usually a rubber stamp. matter.

If Haig is opposed by the Europeans, it would be the first time
in NATO history that such a thing has happened. All six supreme
NATO commanders since 1949 have been U.S. military men. There

were some indications that sentiment was growing for a West
German commander.

( CIA admits sabotage
of Allende government

WASHINGTON — Another
item in the Nixon administra-
tion’s long list of “credibi-
lity gaps” has just been
made public.

In a document released
last week by Congressman
Michael Harrington, it was
revealed, to no one’s sur-
prise, that the Nixon admin-
istration had authorized more
than $8-million for covert ac-
tivities by the CIA in Chile
between 1970 and 1973 to
make it impossible for Presi-
dent Salvador Allende to
govern. The goal of the clandestine CIA activities, director
William Colby testified at a top-secret hearing last April,
was to “destabilize” the Popular Unity government.

All the CIA’s operations against the Allende government
were approved in advance by the 40 Committee in Washing-
ton, a secret high-level intelligence panel headed by U.S.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. All decisions of the 40
Committee must be unanimous.

The implicatidn of Kissinger directly in the CIA plots
against Chile is another slap in the face for the Nixon-Ford
administration and a blot on Kissinger’s “pristine-pure” re-
putation. The administration has been saying for a year now
that it was “not directly involved” in the military take-over.

Mr. Colby’s testimony indicates that senior officials in the
State Department and White House repeatedly and deliber-

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ately misled both public and Congress about the extent of
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1974—PAGE 6

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One year has passed since a group of generals toppled the legally elected gov
ment of Dr. Salvador Allende in Chile. ocked
What has happened in that country since September 11, 1973 has
conscience of the world. : xiled 4
To go over the horrible statistics of dead, imprisoned, tortured and e th at!
serves little purpose here, except to mention once again the vengeance |
cism, in its most brutal form, can wreak upon a people. peas i
The sins of the people of Chile, in the eyes of their former masters, x hie
both the domestic and foreign variety, were unforgiveable — the desire for”
tion from foreign control, from the control of. the immense multi-nationa
rations which had bled Chile dry for almost 150 years. ; / nt
The sins of the Chilean people, in the eyes of their exploiters, also west
further. The Popular Unity government, the mighty coalition of Commit ‘f
cialists, Radicals, Christian Left, and MAPU’s, had the audacity to dar af
the land to the people who worked it, dared to give each child one half litre i
dared to make education a right, dared to make working people the masters
workplaces, dared to make freedom a reality. : - the oll
The Popular Unity government also dared to do the ultimate — give wil!
corporations, the commumnication system, the banks, all controlled ir nV
all owned, lock, stock and barrel by the United States, back to the people
labor they flourished. This, above all, was unpardonable. jatel
And so, on September 11, 1973, the day of vengeance came. One year
still takes its toll. : : tor,
Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, sen@ ih
tical thinker, is still imprisoned. As yet, there have been no charges i
him. Here on this page we have his testimony about his half year on Daws :
the prison, and the burial ground of many of the Chilean leaders. rgio 6,
Some have been more fortunate. Here also is an interview given by i
kovic, a leading figure of the Popular Unity coaliton, who has managed 0°
the wrath of the junta.
There are no statements from those who died. Py
Yet all is not lost. Ninety years of militant working class tradition cant
stroyed, whether in a day, a month, or a year. wor
Fifty years of the Communist Party of Chile, the vanguard of the
class and people of the country, cannot be swept aside in one fell swooP:
years of Socialist Party cannot so easily be erased. yest
Already the signs have appeared that the junta will not survive the ten nl
has recently granted itself. The Chilean people and their organizations are”
ready for battle. off
And it is up to us to help. Our solidarity can mean mucht o the people ip"
As Karl Marx so rightly said, ideas become a materital force once they
minds.of the masses. : oct
International solidarity has before staved the hand of the butcher Pit
can do so again. It is real, and people in Chile feel it. a.
Today, one year after the coup of coups in Latin, America, the continent a

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people of Chile in their hour of need. |
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Pedro Vuskovic was the Min- the present situation under the economically active
ister of Economics under the junta. of Chile, and this re?
Unidad Popular government of Q.—As the former Minister of highest level of i sin.
Salvador Allende. the Economy and later Vice- registered in Chi”? oh t?

He is 48 years old and gradu- President of CORFO (the State crises of the 19305: i

ated from the University of Development Agency) we factor is
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Chile in 1945. : would be interested in hearing A second facta pu!

He was former director of the your analyses of the economic real income and “mal

Economic Commission of Latin
America (United Nations); he
has also been a professor in
many Latin American universi-
ties and the Latin American In-
Stitute for Economic and Social
Planning. His main subject areas
were economic theory, national
accounting, economic statistics,
Latin American development and

policies of the military junta power of the vast al f
and their effects upon the the population pas tert? !
Chilean economy. Especially, cut back. The i jn FO af
how have these policies affect- structure, above 4 as a)
ed the different social sectors essential items, S sin fi
in Chile? from 12 to 15 tim@™ je &
A.—I believe that the central tember to today, pee! ue él
fact is that today, under the dic- and salaries have ily’ wis 4
tatorship, Chile is experiencing ed at a substantia se oft
one of the most dramatic econo- Among the ae tio ip
mic situations in the history of the Chilean populé ; A
In an interview given to the the country. Unemployment has hunger, malnutritio™, os
Chile Documentation Centre of reached unprecedented levels homes of the mid nowt
Regina, Mr. Vuskovic talks about representing some 20% of the winter was one W! ,

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