GAINS FREEDOM
SANTIAGO DE. CHILE -- ‘The campaign initiated. ‘by Clotario Blest ‘and Oscar Waiss for the freedom of the well-known Chilean Trotskyist leader Luis Vitale won a quick success,
The campaign was begun before the inauguration of. the Frei government in hope that sufficient pressure could be mounted to persuade officials of the new regime to release Vitale as one of their first acts in office. —
It turned out, however ,. that the out-going Alessandri govern= ment made this one of its last. acts, an order being issued October 28 by Minister of Justice Enrique ortiizar for Vitale's release, The order seemingly got lost in bureaucratic channels but about the time the pressure began mounting on Frei, _ the order .came through.
« Vitale served seven. months of a 54l-day sentence of- exile to. 2 the isolated town of Curepto in southern Chile.
Now back in Santiago, ‘Vitale is seeking to regain his Chilean citizenship which was cancelled by. the. Alessandri regime, . Vitale was subjected to political persecution because of his leadership in a.militant campaign in behalf of the Cuban Revolution. during the tense period of: the "missile" crisis in the Ceribbean in the fall of 1962, -— _ _ ee