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...tale of the attempt by the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to overthrow Chile's Marxist Salvador Allende unfurled last week before a Senate subcommittee. Armed with reams of memorandums, working papers and personal letters from ITT's files, a Senate subcommittee established that the strange tale essentially began in September 1970, immediately after Allende garnered a plurality of 36% of the vote in Chile's popular presidential election, virtually assuring him of victory in the three-way runoff in Congress the following month. ITT officials, motivated by both misplaced patriotism and fear for the future...
...LARGE PART OF Plumb's advantage comes from the nature of the history he studies. A liberal, an intellectual historian, a biographer of great men, Plumb's interests lend themselves to a more stylish treatment than do the concerns of some Marxist or mathematically inclined historians. Of course, plenty of men with Plumb's interests fail as literary stylists, and it is to Plumb's eternal credit that he writes as well as he does. The liberal essayist is a dying breed, and the essay itself seems to be a declining form, not replaced, certainly, by the new journalism...
Billed as the first head-to-head confrontation between Allende's Marxist coalition and Chile's anti-Socialist forces, the election-for all 150 Chamber of Deputies seats and 25 of the 50 Senate seats-turned out to be a sort of stalemate. That benefited Allende. While his coalition picked up only 43.4% of the vote (v. 54.7% for the opposition Democratic Confederation), it gained six seats in the lower chamber and two in the Senate. This still leaves the opposition parties in control but gives them far less than the two-thirds majority needed to stop government...
...Popular Unity Coalition headed by Marxist President Salvador Allende took 43 per cent of the vote in the by-elections, increasing its strength in both houses of the legislature...
Lisa considers herself a Marxist--"but I'm not quite sure what brand." In addition, she does not consider revolutionary ideals incompatible with the labor movement. "People like George Meany really don't represent most workers or most trade union officials...