Military Agreement

Outside Chile's Chamber of Deputies, one day last week, pistol-bearing carabineros watched as left-wing students gathered, chanting: "Chile, yes! Yankees, no!" Inside, deputies packed the chamber to vote on a treaty under which the U.S. would give Chile a share of the $38,150,000 available for military aid to Latin America. Amid tumult and tension, each deputy rose, voted and explained his vote. Cried Socialist Poet Baltazar Castro: "I vote no because I want a free and worthy homeland." Retorted Conservative Jose Correa: "I vote yes, for the same reason." The treaty passed, 78-21.

Presidential proclamation of the treaty will make Chile the fifth Latin American nation to put in force a military mutual-aid agreement with the U.S. Others: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador. Uruguay last week signed a similar pact, but like Brazil, still has to ratify it. Mexico, eighth country invited by the, U.S., declined.

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