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among the 7,000 Chileans and foreigners held prisoner in the National Stadium here. Their release had been promised last Friday. Two' other Americans were reported today to have been detained Saturday: Charles Fisk, who was taken with other prisoners to the School for Aviation, and Juan Jose Nolas- co, a nationalized American from the Dominican Republic, who was said _to. have been taken to the stadium. The authorities announced today that a score of people, including a number of foreign- ers said to possess arms, were arrested yesterday in the mid- dle-class San Borja disi\rict. The militaty was reported to have seized not only Marxist literature but sociological litera- ture in general and hewspapers and magazines. "We respect ideas and there has been no Government order to burn Marxist books," a Gov- ernment spokesman said, but he added that instructions had been given to seize literature that might be used as codes. There is panic in the foreign community here, particularly among Latin Americans here under the Allende regime as political exiles. The military authorities have had a number of declarations charging that the foreign left- ists had come here "to kill Chileans." The foreigners are being held responsible for train- ing Chilean left-wing guerrillas and spreading. Marxism. Wilma ,q?P S 1973 E NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1973 'Chile Seiz's a U.S. Profe,ssor in Hunt for Leftists By MARVINE HOWE ' SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 24— The military authorities made dozens o fnew arrests in down- town Santiago today • as the house-to-house search for sup- porters of the late President Salvador Allende Gossens con- tinued. An American professor, James Gordon Ritter, is among those detained. He was taken from his home to the Ministry of Defense yesterday and his whereabouts now is unknown. The military authorities an- nounced today they were look- ing for 36 "extremist leaders," but they have made widespread arrests among foreigners known to be sympathetic to President Allende's Marxist regime. Four other Americans are un- accounted for in the widespread arrests that began two weeks ago with the overthrow of Pres- ident Mende. "We're checking everywhere for them —. prisons, hospitals and other government build- ings where they're holding pris- oners — but we have found no trace of them so far," Frank Tonini, press attache at the United States Embassy, said afternoon. The missing flour are the Rev. Charles Paul Welsh of the Con- gregation of the Holy Cross, Charles Edmund •Horman, a New - York film-maker, Carol Nezzo, a Methodist worker, and a Julius Wool. Two American members of the Maryknoll mission, Francis Flynn, a seminarian, and the Rev. Joseph Doherty, are still Widow of Allende Leaves Mexico for Visit in Cuba MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24 (Reuters)—The widow of the former Chilean President, Sal- vador Allende Gossens, flew to Cuba today for a visit She was accompanied by the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Fer- nando L,6pez Muino. A family spokesman said that Mrs. Allende would visit her daughter, Beatriz, who is the wife of a Cuban diplomat and left Santiago shortly after the military coup that deposed her father. She is expecting a baby. Mrs. Allende is expected to return to Mexico in about a week.
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among the 7,000 Chileans and foreigners held prisoner in the National Stadium here. Their release had been promised last Friday.
Two' other Americans were reported today to have been detained Saturday: Charles Fisk, who was taken with other prisoners to the School for Aviation, and Juan Jose Nolas-co, a nationalized American from the Dominican Republic, who was said _to. have been taken to the stadium.
The authorities announced today that a score of people, including a number of foreign-ers said to possess arms, were arrested yesterday in the mid-dle-class San Borja disi\rict.
The militaty was reported to have seized not only Marxist
literature but sociological litera-ture in general and hewspapers and magazines.
"We respect ideas and there has been no Government order to burn Marxist books," a Gov-ernment spokesman said, but he added that instructions had been given to seize literature that might be used as codes.
There is panic in the foreign community here, particularly among Latin Americans here under the Allende regime as political exiles.
The military authorities have had a number of declarations charging that the foreign left-ists had come here "to kill Chileans." The foreigners are being held responsible for train-ing Chilean left-wing guerrillas and spreading. Marxism.
Wilma ,q?P S 1973 E NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1973
'Chile Seiz's a U.S. Profe,ssor in Hunt for Leftists By MARVINE HOWE '
SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 24—The military authorities made dozens o fnew arrests in down-town Santiago today • as the house-to-house search for sup-porters of the late President Salvador Allende Gossens con-tinued.
An American professor, James Gordon Ritter, is among those detained. He was taken from his home to the Ministry of Defense yesterday and his whereabouts now is unknown.
The military authorities an-nounced today they were look-ing for 36 "extremist leaders," but they have made widespread arrests among foreigners known to be sympathetic to President Allende's Marxist regime.
Four other Americans are un-
accounted for in the widespread arrests that began two weeks ago with the overthrow of Pres-ident Mende.
"We're checking everywhere for them —. prisons, hospitals and other government build-ings where they're holding pris-oners — but we have found no trace of them so far," Frank Tonini, press attache at the United States Embassy, said afternoon.
The missing flour are the Rev. Charles Paul Welsh of the Con-gregation of the Holy Cross, Charles Edmund •Horman, a New - York film-maker, Carol Nezzo, a Methodist worker, and a Julius Wool.
Two American members of the Maryknoll mission, Francis Flynn, a seminarian, and the Rev. Joseph Doherty, are still
Widow of Allende Leaves Mexico for Visit in Cuba
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24 (Reuters)—The widow of the former Chilean President, Sal-vador Allende Gossens, flew to Cuba today for a visit She was accompanied by the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Fer-nando L,6pez Muino.
A family spokesman said that Mrs. Allende would visit her daughter, Beatriz, who is the wife of a Cuban diplomat and left Santiago shortly after the military coup that deposed her father. She is expecting a baby.
Mrs. Allende is expected to return to Mexico in about a week.
