1972, for example, 33 percent of all state-owned buses were out of service due to parts shortages.) Anticipated revenue from the nationalized copper industry was down $500 million in 1971-72 because the worldwide price of copper dropped from 64c a pound in 1970 to 48c a pound in 1972. Yet assistance from the presum- ably sympathetic Soviets amounted to no more than $340 million from 1971 to 1973.
Why did Moscow fail to bail out Allende? The Soviets do not have unlimited means, say the authors;...