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...military need not be put off until Army cadets stand at Harvard's gates. Assurances that normal bureaucratic channels will assure thorough debate should the return of ROTC eventually prove imminent ring hollow while Harvard departments continue, even now, to do research related to military technology and the capitalist development of Southeast Asia. We do not need to wait until ROTC's return is certain to ask ourselves what kind of University Harvard should be. A student vote on ROTC would have set a precedent for future years and provided another opinion Bok and the Corporation would have...
...this, the concluding section of President Allende's speech to Mexican students in December 1972, he encourages the students not to abandon their duty to their fellow citizens. He explains that it is difficult to retain socialist beliefs amid the corrosive effect of capitalist society, but he expresses his confidence that they will be able to shun the status-seeking temptations of middle-class life...
...COURSE we know of the past history of the Church, linked as it was to the formation of the powerful capitalist countries and, being influential--in past centuries and in the first part of this one--not in favor of the humble people taught by the master of Galilee. But the times have changed and the Christian conscience is following the change with honest thinking and with honest action. Marxists can join in programmatic actions with Christians and religious people. And we have done this in our country--and we are doing it well--and we share the same attitude...
...despite this, the population of our countries increases vigorously. It is true that technological advance in the field of medicine has risen, and these advances have improved living conditions somewhat. Our average life expectancy has also risen, although, certainly, it is still much inferior to that of the capitalist industrial countries and the socialist countries...
...THIS WAY, a reality common to the immense majority of our countries has been produced: we are potentially rich, but we live poor. In order to continue living, we borrow. But at the same time we export capital. This is a typical paradox in the international relations of the capitalist system...