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placed him in command to deal Gen. Augusto Pinochet with strikes and riots. The gen- Ugarte, Commander in Chief of eral publicly expressed the MILITARY JUNTA the army, became president of hope that troops would not the four-man junta and swore have to go into the streets in a 15-member cabinet com- against the rioters "because IN CHILE ORDERS posed mostly of military men. the army, unlike 'the police, The swearing - in ceremony goes out to kill." was broadcast briefly on a He visited the United States REA-WITH CUBA state-controlled television net- Southern Command in the Panama Canal oZne in 1965, work and an announcer told the 1968 and 1972 and toured the audience, "We can realize that United States in 1968 as a. Army Commander, Named in the faces of the new min- guest of the Government. President, Swears In a isters one notes a great de The Other Leaders Continued on Page 8, Column 1 The three other junta mem- 15-Member Cabinet bers are the commanders in chief of the navy and air force,• Adm. Jose Toribio Merino and By The Associated Press einitinned From Page 1, Col.; 5 Gen. Gasta. Leigh Guzman, • and SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 13— termination and will to face the the national police chief, Gen. ,task of the national reconstruc- Cesar Mendoza. The cabinet Chile's new military junta .,, named an army general as :includes seven army generals, „co'„Rear Adm. Ismael Huerta, the :three admirals, three* top air President today, formed a cabi- Foreign Minister, advised force officers and two civilians. net and broke diplomatic rela- reWe. Cuban Ambassador, Mario I Gen. Oscar Bonilla of the tions with Cuba in a sharp atria Inchaustegui, that the army has 4the -key post of In- reversal of,„, the country's. rite, in one of its first acts, terior Minister. foreign policy. e diplomatic relations with A statement issued by the An around-the-clock curfew, junta said, it was' expelling r. Inchaustegui , and 160 from the country left-wingers in effect since the violent coup embers of his mission drove who had been given exile in d'etat on Tuesday, was lifted ,udahuel International Air- Chile under President Allende. at noon for six and a half rt during the night. and left "It is our desire to rid our hours so civilians could leave Havana this morning in a country of undesirable ele- their homes to buy food and viet airliner. ments," the statement said. One of President Allende's Several thousand leftists, other necessities. three daughters, Beatriz, left The curfew had been so with the delegation. Her hus- strictly enforced in this city band, Luis Fernandez Ona, is many involved guerrilla or- of three million — nearly a the embassy's first secretary. ganizations in other Latin- American countries, were au- third of the national popula- (Dr. Allende's widow, Hor- tensia, her two other, married thorized by President Allende tion—that civilians could not daughters and four grand- to live in Chile. leave their homes even to bor- children received asylum in The junta, in a communique, row a cup of sugar from a next- -the Mexican Embassy, the warned workers occupying fac- door neighbor. Hundreds of ,Mexican Government an- tories that• they faced execution others had been stranded in nounced today. They are to if they are found with arms when captured. Another com- 'offices and hotels in downtown leave for Mexico City to- morrow aboard a Mexican muniqne promised workers Santiago. plane. Mrs. Allende returned "true social justice" when they [Allies of President Al- only last week from Mexico, return to their jobs once fac- lende in Buenos Aires said where she had led a Chilean tories and offices reopen. that the former commander mission taking relief supplies in chief of the Chilean Army, for victims of a recent earth- March .on Capital Reported Gen. Carlos Prats Gonzalez, quake and flooding.] BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 13 President Allende, who took (AP) — Leaders of President was leading troops from the Allende's Popular Unity coali- south • td attack the junta tion in Chile said here that the forces irOantiago. There was office Nov. 2, 1970, made Chile former commander of the no confirmation. Meanwhile, the first South American na- Chilean army Gen. Carlos Prats Cuba, called for a meeting tion to renew diplomatic rela- Gonzalez, had taken command tions with Cuba, refying an of troops and was leading them of the United Nations Secur- from the south 'to attack the ity Council charging "grave embargo imposed in the nine- junta forces in Santiago. acts" against the Cuban Em- teen-sixties by, the Oragniza- tion of American States. He There was no confirmation bassy in Santiago and a Cu- was also the Western Hemis- of their information from any ban merchant ship.] other sources. phere's first elected Marxist A dispatch from Punta Appeal for Blood President. Arena, in the 'south, said troops A new flurry of shooting• Marxism His Target there were doing normal. duty. broke out in the downtown General Pinochet has de- Leaders of the Chilean group clared that the four-man junta are Juan Enrique Vega, former area at noon and only a hand- Chilean Ambassador to Cubt; ful of pedestrians ventured he heads will "exterminate Marxism." The general, an artil- Octivio Gonzalez;-- a director of into the streets there. Troops lery officer, was named army the Central Labor Union and Communist party leader,' and have been fighting for three commander in chief two weeks : days_ against snipers and other ago—by President Allende, Jorge Arrata, economic adviser armed supporters of President who hoped until the end to to President Allende. Salvador Allende Gossens, the keep the military on his side. Marxist leader who died in the The new 'Chilean strongman' Asylum for Mrs. Allende is a powerfully built six-footer MEXICO CITY, Sept. 13 (UPI) coup. with graying hair ,and black- —A Mexicn jet has teen sent A communique broadcast on rimmed glasses to correct near- to Chile to carry Mrs. Salva- the state radio network ap- sightedness. Friends say he is dor Allende, two ofJler daugh- pealed to Chileans to go to energetic and very disciplined ters, four i of her grandchildren medical centers while the curl- and until recently he never and other Chilean exiles to talked politics. This is in the few was not in effect to donate Mexico. tradition of the Chilean mili- A spokesman for President blood "of whatever type." tary, which had remained out Luis Echeverrfa. Alvarez today The appeal followed unoffi- of politics for 46 years until confirmed that Mrs. Allende cial reports that 500 to 1,000 Tuesday. and'the others had been gr,ant- people had died and many had General Pinochet (pronounced ed political asylum. Mr. Eche- been wounded in fighting since pee-noo-CHETT) first came to verria had earlier offered asy- Tuesday morning, when the public attention last fall when lum to President Allende him- President Allende declared San- self if he survived the military coup toppled President Allen- tiago a military zone and attack. de's three-year-old Government. charge of the only radio net- work on the air, have not mentioned casualty figures. Expelled Cubans Reach Havana MIAMI, Sept. 13 (AP)--Cuban diplomats expelled from Chile arrived in Havana today aboard a Soviet airliner that also car- ried President Allende's daugh- ter Beatriz, the Havana Radio regorted. Moscow Denoucei Coup MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (fieuters) —The Soviet Union 'tonight de- nounced what it termed "the actions of reactionary forces in Chile' 'and expressed support fo rthe coalition Government of• the late President Allende'. A brief statement from the Soviet> Communist party's Cen- tral Committee was th first fully official reaction • to the Chilean coup. So far there'haa been no formal reaction from the Soviet Government, al- though the Central Committee statement carries the weight of the top Kremlin leadership. Red Cross Sends, Delekate GENEVA, Sept. 13 (UPI) =- The International Red Cross said today it had sent a special delegate to Latin America in an attempt to help those in- jured in street battles in Chile and to arrange a truce. Red Cross spokesmen said the delegate, Thomas Von Kay- ser, flew to Buenos Aires, where he will join up with other delegates based in Latin America. The group will then try to enter Chile, the spokes- men said. .