Dr. Jacques Zylberberg, a Belgian Jewish professor who was arrested by the military junta in Chile, returned to Belgium today after three weeks’ imprisonment Dr. Zylberberg, who taught sociology at the University of Concepcion under the Allende Administration, said the junta reproached him for being “Jewish and an intellectual.” He said that having been imprisoned at the Kuina naval base off the Chilean coast of Talcahuana, he was relatively privileged as compared to the 20,000 other political prisoners held elsewhere in Chile. He said he did not have many complaints about the conditions of his detention.
Former Soviet master spy Leopold Trepper has been granted permission to leave Poland for the West, according to reports reaching Copenhagen today. Trepper learned the news Sunday night when representatives of the Polish Ministry of Health and Interior called at the sanatorium where he is hospitalized. The operation he requires cannot be performed in Poland. He is awaiting receipt of his passport and visa.
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