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...mile length. Violence flared in many places, and a massive truckers' strike had brought the economy practically to a standstill. Santiago seethed with riots and demonstrations as extremist factions of both the right and left sought to impose their will upon President Salvador Allende Gossens' Marxist government. In an effort to stabilize his regime, Allende shuffled ministries like a deck of cards...
...WITH those words, The Crimson plunged into its second century. the first century had been memorable: Crimson editors had gone on to become presidents, Pulitzer Prize-winners, Marxist economists, business magnates. The paper's politics had wavered from the far left to the right, but a thread of liberalism seemed inextricably woven into the fabric of the organization... And it was somehow fitting that on the 100th anniversary of the first edition of The Crimson, 450 former Crimson editors congregated on Cambridge for a Centennial dinner...
Back in the thirties, the paper was much more formal. Well-known Marxist economist Paul M. Sweezy '31 was president in that era, but a glance at the paper during his year will give no clue to his later dedication to socialism...
Salvador Allende, the president of Chile, is always "Marxist President Allende" in these newspapers, yet they fail to make the logical extension--"Capitalist President Nixon." Also, the NLF are always "Communist snipers," which is not strictly true because they are not all "Communists." At any rate, these phrases should be accompanied by something like "Capitalist war planes" or, at the very least, "Free Enterprise war planes." One can be thankful for small favors, however; at least these papers have for the most part stopped calling the Khmer Rouge or the NLF "the enemy...
Thus when Paul M. Sweezy '31, a leading Marxist economist, spoke at Harvard last January, he told of the situation in 1940 when he was ushered out of his position as an economics instructor. "The Economics Department never did me a greater favor," he said. Daniel Ellsberg '52, speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall in 1972, warned students to stay out of the "center of the web," noting that Harvard graduates had almost singlehandedly engineered a decade of death and destruction in Indochina...