WESTERN HEMISPHERE BRIEF - CHILE: CHILEAN SECURITY FORCES ARE PREPARING FOR TRO

Created: 5/19/1976

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WESTERN HEMISPHERE BRIEF

//CHILE" CHILEAN SECURITY FORCES ARE PREPARING FOR TROUBLE DURING THE OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SCHEDULED TO CONVENE IN SANTIAGO ON JUNE ^ffl

//THERE HAVE,BEEN NO MAJOR TERRORIST INCIDENTS SINCE TOUGH STATE-OF-SIEGC MEASURES WERE IMPOSED FOLLOWING THE COUP IN SEPTEMBEI

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LEFTISTS ARE PLANNING ACTS OF SABOTAGE AND VIOLENCE TO EMBARRASS THE PINOCHET

//THEY ARC ROUNDING UP AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OF THOSE UHO MIGHT TRY TO PROVOKE;DISORDERS- ABOUT SO PERSONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN

//SECURITY FORCES HAVE BEEN PLACED ON ALERT AND POLICE

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PATROLS ARE BEING REINFORCED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. GUARDS ARE BEING POSTED AROUND EMBASSIES IN SANTIAGO TO PREVENT ANY RUSH FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM BY AGITATORS TRYING TO GIVE SUBSTANCE TO THEIR CHARGES OF REPRESSION- PROMINENT PRISONERS ARE BEING CLOSELY GUARDED TO PREVENT LEFTISTS FROM ASSASSINATING THEM AND BLAMING THE

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VISITING US CON6RESSHEN. THIS LATTER FACT MILL ALHOST CERTAINLY QE PLAYED up in THE FOREIGN PRESS AS THE tlOTIVATION FOR THE ARREST.

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