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Allende had apparently heard ru mors; at the uncharacteristically early hour of 7:15, he had driven to La Moneda from his comfortable villa in Santiago's Barrio Alto district. As the troops began to assemble outside the palace, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, commander in chief of the army, telephoned an ultimatum to the palace. If Allende surrendered his office, he would be given safe-conduct out of the country; otherwise he would be deposed by force. Allende refused. "I will not resign," he declared in a very brief radio broadcast. "I am prepared to die if necessary...
...husband's final radio broadcast. "At noon, Salvador did not answer the telephone at La Moneda," she said. "When I managed to get through to La Moneda, it was security agents or carabineros who answered." Meanwhile the air force was also attacking the house at Barrio Alto. "Between attacks−the planes returned to their base to reload−there was ferocious shooting. The residence was all smoke. The last telephone call I made to La Moneda, I had to use the telephone lying on the floor...
This provision, says Frank Savage, president of the MESBIC owned by the Equitable Life Assurance Society, means that many of these otherwise promising ventures are largely limited to "mom-and-pop" businesses. Some of the first MESBlCs, such as the Arcata Investment Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., seem to have been confused about the difference between an investment loan and a charitable donation. Arcata folded in 1972, after nearly half of the businesses it had funded-including such risky ventures as a posh restaurant in the East Palo Alto ghetto-closed down...
Also elected were: Sallie T. Gouverneur of Lowell House and Kent, Conn.; Mary S. Holland of Currier House and Princeton, M.J.; Judith F. Kaufer of North House and New York City; Wendy C. Lesser of Dunster House and Palo Alto, Calif.; Melinda Liu of Currier House and Kettering, Ohio; Lucy T. Marx of Dudley House and Amherst; Randy S. Milden of Currier House and Haverhill; Carol C. Neely of Dudley House; and Ellen S. Peel of South House and Alexandria...
PAINE HALL. Chamber music including Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Jane Struss, alto); and Britten: Suite for Harp. Tickets $3 (Benefit for Nicaragua). April...