URGENT: Military Activity in Chile

[Thomas Kruse]

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>Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:54:38
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>Subject: URGENT: Military Activity in Chile
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>New York Ad Hoc Committee on Chile
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>According to eyewitness reports, on Friday November 6
>at 5:30 AM local time about 150 tanks and trucks loaded
>with soldiers were observed leaving Chile's two main
>barracks in the provinces of San Felipe and Los Andes
>heading in the direction of Santiago, Chile's capital.
>
>In the context of the recent arrest of Pinochet, local
>progressive and human rights activists are concerned
>about the possibility of some type of renewed
>repression occuring. They have not dismissed the
>possibility that forces aligned with Pinochet might be
>attempting a new coup d'etat.
>
>More later.
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