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Preliminary investigation by Gale McGee’s Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee has found no evidence of any U.S. involvement in anti-Allende coup, reports Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. . . . Not so, says Mrs. Hortensia Allende, who accuses the U.S. of flooding Chile with forged bank notes, to help Chile’s roaring inflation along, in an interview in the German illustrated magazine Stern. Mrs. Allende also charges “the CIA, the ITT, the American copper companies [never gave Allende] a day’s peace to govern the country.” … A documentary film on a visit Allende made to Cuba in November 1971, which was released over a year ago, has the following exchange. Allende: “Only if my body is riddled with bullets will I leave the presidency before my term ends,” to which Castro commented: “A stupendous attitude.” . . . Among the leftists captured by the military in the first week after the coup was Comandante Pepe, the self-styled Robin Hood, whose brigandage was described by Nena Ossa in NR (March 23, 1971).

Washington insiders now sure that Richard Nixon’s Year of Europe won’t include a Nixon tour of Europe. For one thing the kind of “substantive” agreements Nixon planned to come back with aren’t yet in the making, and for another, Nixon probably wants to stick around as long as Congress remains in session. . . . Nixon’s veto batting record, incidentally, might give Hank Aaron pause: He’s seven for seven, having won five votes to sustain in the House, two in the Senate. . . . In the Senate, only two Republicans voted against Henry Kissinger’s nomination to State: Jesse Helms (N.C.), who hasn’t approved of Kissinger’s policies of detente toward China and Russia, and Lowell Weicker, presumably on general principles. . . . Gentle reminders: While Brezhnev and Nixon were talking detente in Washington, Red China exploded its largest nuclear bomb to date; while Georges Pompidou was visiting Mao Tse-tung in Peking, the Soviet Union exploded its largest underground bomb ever.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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Preliminary investigation by Gale McGee’s Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee has found no evidence of any U.S. involvement in anti-Allende coup, reports Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. . . . Not so, says Mrs. Hortensia Allende, who accuses the U.S. of flooding Chile with forged bank notes, to help Chile’s roaring inflation along, in an interview in the German illustrated magazine Stern. Mrs. Allende also charges “the CIA, the ITT, the American copper companies [never gave Allende] a day’s peace to govern the country.” … A documentary film on a visit Allende made to Cuba in November 1971, which was released over a year ago, has the following exchange. Allende: “Only if my body is riddled with bullets will I leave the presidency before my term ends,” to which Castro commented: “A stupendous attitude.” . . . Among the leftists captured by the military in the first week after the coup was Comandante Pepe, the self-styled Robin Hood, whose brigandage was described by Nena Ossa in NR (March 23, 1971).

Washington insiders now sure that Richard Nixon’s Year of Europe won’t include a Nixon tour of Europe. For one thing the kind of “substantive” agreements Nixon planned to come back with aren’t yet in the making, and for another, Nixon probably wants to stick around as long as Congress remains in session. . . . Nixon’s veto batting record, incidentally, might give Hank Aaron pause: He’s seven for seven, having won five votes to sustain in the House, two in the Senate. . . . In the Senate, only two Republicans voted against Henry Kissinger’s nomination to State: Jesse Helms (N.C.), who hasn’t approved of Kissinger’s policies of detente toward China and Russia, and Lowell Weicker, presumably on general principles. . . . Gentle reminders: While Brezhnev and Nixon were talking detente in Washington, Red China exploded its largest nuclear bomb to date; while Georges Pompidou was visiting Mao Tse-tung in Peking, the Soviet Union exploded its largest underground bomb ever.