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...first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...
...died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties...
...died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties...
...childishness of this kind of humor is overshadowed only by its morbidity. This spring thousands of opponents of the Chilean Junta are facing secret trials and executions. This raises to prime importance the placing of immediate international pressure on the Junta by the working class. The Crimson's response is to wallow in self-complacent irony...
...edition of The Crimson you give "coverage" to a demonstration on Saturday, May 11, called by the Committee to Defend the Endangered Chilean Militants by running a photograph which portrays the event as a carnival...