Word: chiles
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...reflected the national mood, but, unfortunately, records of these Class Day speeches were not kept. Not until much of the campus turmoil had subdued, in 1974, are records available. At that time, Harvard orator and former Crimson president Daniel A. Swanson '74 talked of his feeling about Vietnam and Chile as he entered the University in 1971. His parting thoughts included...
When I entered this University in 1970, American bombers were carpeting Vietnam and Salvador Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangladesh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetery...
...political action, and adds, "We have been consistently anti-fascist to this day." As an organization or as individuals, Nelson says the veterans strenuously opposed fascism during World Ear II, "were represented at every demonstration in Washington" against the Vietnam War, and today oppose the Pinochet regime in Chile. Most veterans vote for liberal democrats. Nelson believes, and he says about the 1976 Presidential election, "What the hell could you do, support Ford...
...cables that Carter's concern with human rights at first prompted the Chilean and Argentine regimes to grant dissenters a bit more leeway. But in the past week "Argentina barred those held under the state-of-siege regulations from leaving the country-an option they had before. In Chile, the official state of siege has been extended for six more months, and last week the Christian Democratic Party and three other political groups were outlawed...
...committee voiced specific objections to Kissinger's actions in dealing with Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile as well as his possible role in domestic wiretapping...