Word: chileanizing
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...RESISTANCE grew among Chileans to the continued plundering of the country by North American businesses in league with a tiny yet powerful Chilean upper class, the Left grew slowly through the forties and fifties. A prominent figure in the Socialist Party, one of the Left's spearheads, Allende gained national attention. For the most part, he left medicine aside, realizing that the bent and broken lives of his people demanded political and social solutions...
...weeks ago, Salvador Allende died, apparently by his own hand, as the Chilean military prepared to storm the Palace after a two-hour air and artillery bombardment. He died as he had lived, fighting for socialism, for justice, for the Santiago children who never got enough to eat. He fought with speeches and ballots, and now his remaining companeros will fight with guns...
Meanwhile, the paralyzing strike of Chilean truck owners and retail merchants continued. Announcing the Cabinet switches, Allende charged that the month-long strike by truckers protesting the threat of nationalization had already cost the country more than $100 million and had put 90,000 construction workers out of jobs. For openers in his new role, Briones threatened to withdraw armed protection from the truck owners and give it instead to leftist strikebreakers, but the stalemate was unresolved. (In Allende's Chile, paradoxically, most strikes have been staged not by labor groups but by conservative small-businessmen and professionals against...
...system of continuous expansion; of his reassuring observation (to an antitrust committee concerned at his attempted takeover of the American Broadcasting Company) that "the highest ingredient that a newsman has for sale is his professional integrity;" of his company's notorious attempts to finance the Republican convention and the Chilean counter-revolution; and of his public relations director Edward Gerrity's comment on the effect of these scandals on ITT's business: "The reservations for Sheraton hotels have been a record...
...other multinationals have helped to bind the world into the single economic network social anaaysts have predicted for centuries--Sampson has a particularly good passage on the Americanization of ITT employees--and in so doing, these companies have helped bind the world in a tighter political network, as well. Chilean workers face the accumulated strength of American capital; at the same time, though Sampson doesn't stress this much, American capital faces the emerging strength of Chilean workers. For if it is true that ITT proposed to devote its American profits to defeating revolution in Chile, it is equally true...