LATIN AMERICA BRIEF - CHILE: INCREASED OPPOSITION ACTIVITY

Created: 12/1/1979

OCR scan of the original document, errors are possible

!'i II. CMlUElHILEAN YOUTHS MERC ARRESTED THIS MEEKFORCES TESTEO THE GOVERNMENT'S TOLERANCE A3 IT MOVES I J .

i THOSE *RRE3TE0 *ERE MEMBERS OF THE YOUTH MOVEMENT"

FORMER PRESIDENTHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIME'S CHIEFHAS BEEN INCRtASINC ITS ACTIVITIES. YOUTHS "EREOF UNLAnfUL ASSEM.AND DISTRIBUTING PARTY LITERATURE! THEIR ACTIVITY

sikFF

002

tOTl 0l| t9

i THE APPROVAL OF FREI, HMO LAST SUMMER OPENLY DEMANDED RESTORATION. OF TRADITIONAL FREEDOMS, THE REGIME IS FACEDTHE OILEMMA OF TRYING TO BROADEN POLITICAL PAPTJCI*TjpN "HUE DENYING A VOICE TO THE CHRISTIAN OCOCRATS.

OPPOSITION ELE-EHTS IN TmE CmuRCh,NDALSO HAVE BECOME RESTIVE. STUDENTS AT THREE OIF-FERENT INSTITUTIONS RECENTLYSU3RES0E0 FORACTIVITIES. rsB

the oence is the outcroxth ofcautious steps tdhard greater freedom. the government has allowed the resumption ofcollective bargaining under alabor code.have also said. that thev mill permit fullon the draftew constitution! portions ofcompleted draft have been leaked to the'public discussion that the government ha$