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Show '.T 2 The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, September 12, 1973 Military Takes Over in Chile 4 s Regime Allende Coup Topples Continued From Page One The palace defenses crumbled in a final assault by sol- d diers and national police No casualty figures were available A U S Embassy spokesman said no Americans were known to have been wounded f t had insisted that he would lead Chile to socialism within a democratic framewoik, but growing opposition from Chiles large middle class made that impossible His nearly three years m power were marked by political and labor lurmoil. economic crisis and raging Allende fi h t sniped from office buildings at noon The heavy action centered a around the presidential palace, was a mint once that budding of the and covers a block m the heart city the Bombs and rockets smashed into and Allende s interior patios graceful, Sevreportedly was badly damaged the of front eral tanks opened fire at the Guests m the luxurious Carrera Sher floor as their winalon Hotel fell to the and out shot they were led to dows were at the rear of area secure relatively a the second story Name New Police Chief Monster Fades, civilian police chief was named his men to and he immediately ordered forces armed the stop opposing Allende, a physician, had warned re that fas peatedlv in recent speeches cists were planning a coup ag"inst him He emerged last wreek from a cabinet crisis that followed the resignations ol the army, navy and air force command-erfrom his government Allende replaced them with lower ranking officers, but the reshuffle did not appease his opponents who increased their demands that he step down e inflation r. richer on Growing List The coup was the first time in 4b years that the traditionally nonpolitical Chilean military had overturned a civilian government Chile now becomes another on a growing list of South American countries to fall under military rule Uruguay came under armed forces domination last May Right-winextremists killed the Chilean army chief, Gen. Rene Schneider on Oct 22, 1970, in an unsuccessful plot Last June 29 against the government about 100 soldiers attacked the palace in a coup attempt crushed bv loyal army units g Associated Press Wireohoto ne mil- President Salvador Allende was toppled itary coup Tuesday ar.l police otticials report in Here Allende is review-durin- g May, 1973. Santiago committed suicide. troops in Chile ing But on Tuesday the coup succeeded. telephone and telegraph service m Santiago, a city of three was shut down while the siege and attacks occurred, and were not reopened until nightfall. Sporadic Firing Continues e mil-bo- Chilean Revolt No Surprise Foreign Briefs Bombings Stir, Call (gin Britain WASHINGTON Reuters New s Agency Prime Munster 1 Heath's government I Os ready to recall Parlaiment necessary to deal with the of extremist bombings in CKJtain, a senior minister declared Tuesday night Home Secretary Robert Carr said the government was prepared to take this step, but so far the police did not feel they needed any emergency powers from parlaiment LONDON official reported. The U. S embassy lies duectly opposite the large where palace presidential Allende held out for a time Tuesday morning before surrendering ana the official said the U. S building had been nicked by small arms fire. 2,300 Americans boul 2.300 of the Americans reside in and around Santiago and half of these are government employes and dependents The rest are businessmen, students and missionaries. illness Report - The STOCKHOLM (LPI) condition of King Gustaf VI has stabilized somewhat 4bitis still very serious, a late evening medical bulletin said U. Tile which had ering Tuesday There were no signs of new internal hemorrhage and the acute threat from stomach bleeding during the weekend hasJieen averted. the bulletin from the team of royal physicians said. The patients condign is still very serious. A new bulletin was expected Wednesday ? money, before Allende came to power in 1970, has maintained the pos- - de-pj,- z QUiiter-mcasure- governments s Although the worst of the outbreak seemea to be over, officials said they were concerned that people were still orders flouting government and that new cases were coming to light of victims who had contracted the disease within the past few day s The death toll remained at as officials in the Naples area advised people to have a vaccinasecond tion to improve their chances of being fully immunized 24 anti-chole- inner - Nobel Prlee ; Assails Hypocrites W - $SLO, NORWAY (AP) Soviet Nobel Puze winner . - The cookie monster MONTREAL Tuesfaded off the television screen here beautiful of nuiade day and on came a nude women Red faced Don Di Lesaie. assistant director of National Cablevision Ltd, of children who apologized to the paien.s were watching the educational program is a Sesame Street, in which the monster central character down a An electronic switch shut Yt from Burlington, weakening signal tne with it and replaced automatically normally program on a studio monitor, just a test screen But station employes were watching held two the Miss Nude Galaxy Pageant weeks ago in Quebec the A Hood of calls from parents was on air was t the pageant warning It was lousy timing, said Di Cexaie "Machineiy is machinery lu-s- Sporadic firing contmued through the day between army patrols and small bands of Allendes leftist supporters vv ho a in their first communique, the armed forces leaders said they were demanding in the face of the Allendes resignation extremely grave economic, social and moral crisis that is destroying the It added they were fighting country for the liberation of the country from the Marxist yoke. Fust word of the revolt came from the port city of Valparaiso and Allende rushed from his residence to the palace Shortly after 8 am. he made a brief statement over the Socialist partys radio station, spying a sector of the navy" had rebelled princicophe IT AT and per mines rehave communications, duced U S. investments from before million $750 just Allende came to power on the Socialist ticket, to under $70 million today Copper Futures Ip coup reports caused copper futures to nse 3 cents to 78 40 cents on the New York Mercantile Exchange But a U S. official warned against the idea that a new regime might restoie nationalized property to Americans got any They havent money anyway," the official said, and all parties support The nationalization So any Aire you Ana- conda copper shareholdeer who thinks he is goir to get his money back is going to be movies myooir disappointed. The most cntical element in Washington's attempt to be evenhanded toward the Chilean developments is military aid and cooperation Ships Enroute Four U. S Navy vessels were headed for Chile Tuesday irom Peru, participating in joint hemisphere naval ma vamainly of the scenes behind the but riety, there was some talk of returni- Yoik Times Service e ng A Ford Motor Co spokesman said the company already had been holdmg informal discussions with the Allende government about resuming its auto assembly activities, and it would have to study the Most of the companies, that new developments warned, however, that it was An industry source, howevtoo early to assess the prospects of returning Some said er, said the company clearly was interested in returning bethey were momtoiuig developments m Chile through radio cause of the favorable maiket m Latin from for automobiles stations transmitting other Latin American America. Ford's assembly countries plant, valued by it at about $7 million, was taken over by the Officials in the auto, chemiChilean government m cal and communications industries indicated either that they Frank R Millikin, president nught be interested in returning to Chile, or that they Cid of Kennecott Copper Corp. which had its Chilean propernot rule out such a possibility. ties expropriated by Allende in One exception was a cooper 1970, said Tuesday in Denver company oflicial who said Chile is behind us and Theres no way wed go back that is looking toward Kennecott m The domestic copper inthe future w as especially hard hit dustry to had hoped Kennecott of their copper by seizures with an reach arrangement mines in Chile in the last few President Salvador Allende of Chile indicated Tuesday that they might consider resuming manufacturing in Chile if a new government is receptive to U.S investment ofii-cia- ls the Reuters News Agency The expropnations. pally of American-owne- d Some o$ the NEW YORK big US corporations whose, pioporties have been seized by Reuters News Agency Italian health .ROME Tuesuay appealed for stricter observation of health regulations as the country's cholera outbieak continued t tt policy. neuvers and they were redirected away from Chilean ports (Copyright) Nudes Appear A new U.S. Firms Cagey On Chile Return Italy Appeal 3 government, of interfin Chilean politics, prin- New i S a record cipally with V X offi- Accoiding to inlormation the U S embassy in Santiago, none of the 2, 8(H) American citizens in Chile appeared to have been harmed n the uprising, a State Department Carr spoke as police continued their hunt for the bombers including a baby faced who youth of about 15 touched off explosions at two big London railway stations Monday, injuring 13 people ' U S fi om ;0rte J - cials were not surprised by the Chilean armed forces revolt Tuesday, but they declined to comment for the rec-o- i d, to avoid even a hint of commitment to the overthrow of President Salvador Allende or involvement in it , fK, tuie of a disinterested bystander since then, except for protests against his expropriation By Dav id Binder New York Times Writer Allendes guards refused building when to surrender Fires broke oui and a eolumn of black smoke rose from the building. Spectator but then darted gathered at intersections them near hit bullets as cover for 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn claimed Tuesday that the "world has met violence and suppression of human rights with hypocrisy, weakness and double standards lie accused U S senators of hypocrisy in the Watergate scandal and compared the current situation m the L'm'ed States to the state of czarist Russia just before the Communist revolution Solzhenitsyn commented m an article published in the conservative Oslo daily Aftenp-osteThe article was m sup- - n. mid-197- 1 Chile years Official comments v ere CLIP (Copyright) & fun-pack- SUL Tribune Telephone Numbers information, want sports scores, have a news story or feature you want to talk about? Is your paper missing? Do you want to discuss a classified or display advertisement? Do you need HERES W Show your own movies with your own projector. Like this one, Kodaks most versatile movie projector. 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