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...verge of a civil war and we must prevent ..." Salvador Allende Gossens managed to warn his audience on nationwide television last week before the lights flickered twice and the screen went dead. Saboteurs had blown up the tower supporting a main electric circuit in Santiago, leaving the Chilean President without a live camera and 60% of the population in the dark. An hour later, thanks to some fast splicing, Allende was back on the air, his voice strained, blaming right-wing elements for this latest terrorist...
Given Chile's hopelessly snarled economic problems, Bonilla's solution sounded a bit too simple. The fact is that Chilean workers who now earn around $30 a month, will need substantial pay boosts in order to offset inflation, which, at 300% a year, is the highest rate in the world. If they are granted such huge wage increases, the inflationary trend will continue soaring, wiping out their gains. They are ensnared in an economic Catch...
...Chilean transport owners have kept their trucks in their garages for almost three weeks now, avowedly striking to topple the socialist coalition of Salvador Allende. The owners, fearful that their precious private property would be expropriated sometime soon, have resorted to clandestine sabotage, adding to the problems caused by the strike itself--shortages of gasoline, food and medical supplies...
...streets in Chile's capital, Santiago, to demonstrate their support for their Allende government, but their voices are never heard in the United States. Yet let a handful of middle class women bang some cooking pots and wail about prices, and cries of anguish about the subversion of Chilean liberties emanate from sensible American observers...
Allende, in U.S. news dispatches, is always "Marxist President Allende." Nothing the matter with that, but why not call the criminal in the White House "Capitalist President Nixon." At any rate, the right is moving to crush the Chilean people with extra-legal assassinations, political power plays and the like, and all the good American liberals can do is read their newspapers and tremble about civil liberties...