Corvalan back with family
NZPA-Reuter Moscow. The Chilean Communist leader, Mr Luis Corvalan, was expected to make his first public appearance in Moscow yesterday since Santiago and the Kremlin traded his rerelease for the freeing from a Soviet jail of the dissident, Mr Vladimir Bukovsky. Mr Corvalan, a 60-year-old former teacher and journalist, flew to the Soviet Union on. Saturday from Zurich on‘ board the same plane that had carried Mr Bukovsky to
I the Swiss city from Moscow. He was immediately taken | to a secret hideaway where the and his wife, who travelled with him from Chile, were believed to have been reunited with their two daugh-; ters, who have been living in exile in Eastern Europe. According to Chilean sources in Moscow, he will be given a triumphal welcome after flying to the Soviet ; capital’s V.I.P. Vnukovo 21 Airport to be greeted by' Mr; Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet! |Communist Party leader. After arriving in the Soviet i Union on Saturday night, Mr, iCorvalan — who Sas consi&d
.itently maintained a strongly! pro-Moscow stance within ■ tithe fragmented Latin-; s American Communist movet ment — thanked Mr Brezhnev j zlfor his freedom. 1 His message, and a state- - ment on his release issued by lithe official Soviet news, J agency, Tass, made no refer-! ence to Mr Bukovsky’s re-! I lease or the exchange of the . two, which was negotiated! i.wlth the aid of the United' II States and Switzerland. ! t The Tass statement simply! > declared that he had been! .Ifreed because of the pressure! ijof world opinion, particu- ; larly of the Communist coun-l I tries and “progressive forces’’ 1 lion Chile’s military rulers. ! It was not known if he] planned to settle in Moscow.; ; where there is a strong; South American exile com-! i munity' including Uruguayan! I and Brazilian party chiefs.! ! Mr Rodney Arismendi and : Mr Luis Carlos Prestes. ; !j There have also been re-| •iports that Mr Corvalan may! Jmove on eventually to take! up residence in Finland,: ;!which has also opened its] doors to emigre political! from Chp?. i
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