CHILEANS APPEAL FOR HUGO BLANCO
Santiago, Chile
A petition appealing to President Fernando Belatinde Terry to grant amnesty to Hugo Blanco, Hector Bejar, Walter Palacios, Ricardo Gadea, Licurgo Pinto, Daniel Pereyra, José Martorell, Vladimir Valer and hundreds of other revolutionists and fighters for social emancipation, was presented to the Peruvian embassy here on November 25.
The petition was signed by Clotario Blest, chairman for nine years of the Central Unica de Trabajadores de Chile [CUT]; Humberto Valenzuela, a leader of the Municipal Workers; Luis Vitale, a writer and former national leader of the CUT; Alejandro Chelén R., a former senator at present a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist party; Julio César Jobet, a socialist writer; Iuis Rivano, writer; Maria Elena Gertner, writer; Rolando Cardenas, writer; José Gémez Lépez, journalist; Eduardo Long Alessandri, attorney for the Confederacién de Obreros del Cobre; Arnoldo Cami, labor attor-~ ney; Oscar Waiss, lawyer, writer and leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria [MIR]; Walter Blanco, socialist attorney; Manuel Irarrdzabal, attorney; Sergio Lizama, attorney; Jorge Manzor, attorney; Gustavo Espinoza, attorney; Enrique Sepilveda, general secretary of the MIR; Dantén Chelén, 1966 candidate for the presidency of the Federacién de Estudiantes de Chile [FECH]; Arturo Yussef and Juan Yussef, attorneys. Other signatures have been added since the petition was presented.