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Wednesday, September 12, 1973

Military Demands Chilean President’s Resignation

By THE ASSOC/A TED PRESS The Chilean armed forces rose up against President Salvador Allende and demanded that he resign. Radio reports monitored in Argentina said the Western Hemisphere’s only elected Marxist government had been toppled. Air force planes swooped menacingly over Government House in downtown Santiago and troops and tanks surrounded the building. Allende, barricaded inside, managed to broadcast a defiant message, vowing “to resist by every means even at the cost of my life.” Moments later telephone and telegraph communications were cut off with the outside world and broadcasts monitored in neighboring countries indicated the armed forces controlled the state radio network. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Allende rejected the armed forces demands in a broadcast early in the day, saying he would defend his office to the death. Radio Pacifico of Santiago said in a broadcast monitored in La Paz, Bolivia, that tanks had surrounded the presidential palace. Chile’s borders were closed and all communications into and out of the country were cut Airliners were turned back. _ Broadcasts monitored in nearby Argentina said the armed forces leaders claimed that they had seized control of the government. A communique read over Chilean radio stations, linked in a network said, “We warn all persons who are offering resistance to the new government should be aware of the consequences.” The palace was surrounded early, and military aircraft buzzed low over its roof. Allende had addressed the nation earlier by radio, but air and ground attacks silenced stations loyal to him. Allende took office in November 1970 after winning national elections. The situation in Chile has been near collapse for weeks after a series of strikes and terrorist attacks in protest to Allende. The junta criticized Allende for leading the country to “hunger, misery, poverty and control by foreign Marxist mercenaries.” The military announcements were made in the name of a four-man junta identified as Gen. Augusto Pinochet, commander in chief of the army; Gen. Gustavo Ueigh, commander in chief of the air force; Adm. Jose Toripio Merino, acting commander in chief of the navy, and Gen. Cesar Mendoza, the nation’s police chief. The communiques said the junta was Chile’s “military government of national liberation.” Allende had appointed Pinochet and Leigh to their posts International flights were canceled and truck drivers en route to Chile over the rugged Andean mountains said the borders were closed. “The armed forces and the carabineros — Chile’s elite police force — are ready to initiate a historic action for the liberation of the fatherland from the Marxist yoke,” said a military communique monitored in Buenos Aires. “...The Chilean workers can have the security that their economic and social conquests will not suffer fundamental modi-

fications.” Rapid-fire military announcements, issued in the names of the top military commanders, asked the people to stay in their homes and avoid demonstrations, even in support of the new military junta apparently to be established. The military had remained outside Chilean politics since 1930, but were drawn in after the 64-year-old Allende won election in October 1970. The coup started early today with a radio proclamation in the name of Chilean military leaders demanding Allende’s resignation within 24 hours. “I will not resign; I will not do it,” Allende said minutes later in a broadcast over Radioemisora Corporacion, a station owned by his Socialist party. “I declare my will to resist by every means, even at the cost of my life in order that this serve as a lesson in the ignominious history of those who have strength but not reason. “Planes of the air force passed over menacingly,” Allende said during his speech, and then he was cut off. Shooting was reported near the presidential palace and air force planes were said to have attacked radio stations owned by the Socialist and Communist parties. The military declared a state of siege for this nation of nearly 10 million, according to state radio network broadcast monitored in Argentina and Bolivia. The presidential palace “is being emptied of its occupants,” the broadcast added. Naval units reportedly seized Valparaiso, a major port city, early in the coup and army units reportedly failed to respond to Allende’s call to defend his government. The physician-turned president told workers to occupy factories and “don’t be intimidated.” The new junta apparently in power broadcast a 14-point communique monitored in neighboring countries. It charged that Allende had brought hunger, misery, poverty and control by “foreign mercenaries of Marxism” to the country. The communique said “workers, employes, professions, students and housewives were behind the national military liberation movement.” Throughout his government, Allende’s measures, including nationalization of U.S. copper and telephone companies, had met stiff opposition from Congress, controlled by anti-Marx-ist parties. Allende’s United Popular coalition won only 36.3 per cent of the vote in 1970, enough to win the presidency but not control of Congress. More than 50,000 truck drivers, most of them owners of their vehicles, have been on strike against Allende for more than a month, disrupting the economy. They had staged a similar strike last October, but this time engineers, doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers and others in the middle class joined them, demanding Allende’s resignation in almost daily demonstrations in the huge plaza outside La Moneda, the presidential palace. Allende himself publicly announced that the long trucker strike nominally aimed at preventing nationalization of the trucking industry — had cost millions of dollars. Some dissident army units attempted a coup last June 29, but loyal army forces quickly sided with Allende. The president has appointed top military

Indianapolis Man Held On $6,000 Bail Bond

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-An Indianapolis man is being held m Marion County Jail under $6,000 bond on charges of sodomy and contributing to truancy. Police said at least 21 boys were involved. More Votes Than Voters BARBERTON Ohio (AP)~ Striking boilermakers at the Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant here invalidated a Monday night ratification vote because union leaders said they ended lip with more votes than voters. Boilermakers Local 900 leaders said their ruling was subject to the approval of the international union headquarters. A company spokesman said the Monday night vote favored ratification. The 3,000 workers struck the plant July 15 over wage and fringe benefit issues. Operations have continued at other B&W plans in Brunswick. Ga.; West Point, Miss.; Paris, Texas; and Wilmington, N.C., although workers in Mt. Vernon, Ind. struck a B&W plant there for a time this summer.

Charged wns Thomas E. Parker, 31, a casket company night watchman. Police said eight of the 21 boys interviewed said that Parker asked them to sleep in a casket in his basement or in one at the Indianapolis Casket Company, where Parker has worked since July. Detectives Charles F. Shue and Riley G. Stewart said five youths told them Parker kept a casket in the basement of the house, but a search failed to turn up a casket. Three other youths, the detectives said, told of being driven at night to the casket company. The detectives said none of the boys was molested while inside a casket. Parker was arrested in his home last Fridav after a neighbor woman phoned police to report she had seen young teenaged.boys going into the home. Police said when juvenile detectives investigated they found four boys aged 10 to 13 in the home. Parker was awaiting a Criminal Court appearance on a charge of assault and battery with intent to satisfy sexual desires, stemming from an arrest $ last year. 4

men to his Cabinet in an attempt to keep the armed forces loyal, or at least in their traditional political role. More than 600 terrorist attacks have been reported in the last 45 days in apparent connection with a series of strikes called to protest Allende’s program to ’lead Chile down the road to socialism.” Until now Chile had been one

of only five South American nations not directly or indirectly ruled by military men. The other four are Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Guyana. Until the uprising in Chile, nearly 120 million South Americans — most of them in Brazil — lived under direct military rule. Another 10 million or so live under governments heavily influenced by military men.

Allende was elected nearly three years ago on a pledge to turn the Chilean economy Socialist. He became the Western Hemisphere’s first freely elected Marxist president. He blamed “irresponsible elements” for what he called the “incredible action of soldiers who go back on their word and their commitments.”

“I declare my will to resist,” he continued, “even at the cost of my life in order that this serve as a lesson in the ignominious history of those who have strength but not reason.” During his speech to the nation, he referred to the overflight of military planes. “Planes of the air force passed over menacingly," he reported and the broadcast was cut off.

(A Chilean broadcast monitored in Argentina said the army had given Allende until noon to leave the presidential palace in central Santiago. The broadcast added that the military leaders warned that the palace would be attacked by ground troops and air force planes if Allende did not leave. (Shortly after the broadcast of the proclamation, commu-

nications between New York and Santiago were cut off. Communications lines between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Chile also were down. The Dutch KLM airline in Buenos Aires said it had canceled its flight to Santiago today. In Lima, the Peruvian national ermmunications company said it also had lost telephone contact with Chile.)

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