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Precariously perched between the towering Andes and the Pacific, the elongated Republic of Chile runs like a rind along the western coast of South America from the tropics to Cape Horn. Averaging only ...

Chile has not had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union since 1947, when Communist-led coal miners mounted a small-scale antigovernment insurrection. Last week Chile’s newly inaugurated President ...