Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A LIFE by WRIGHT MORRIS 152 pages. Harper & Row. $5.95.
This caricature of Chile's recent past shows what happens when reporters get their news from American Embassy press officers. As David J. Morris's We Must Make Haste--Slowly convincingly demonstrates, the predominate view bears about as much resemblance to reality as a televised speech on anything by Richard...
AT ANY RATE, Allende took office in an already chaotic situation. Popular Unity's goals, as Morris is careful to explain, were not to create socialism, but to lay the foundations for an eventual transition--nationalization, income and land redistribution, expansion of social services, and, least tangible but most important...
MORRIS'S BOOK ends in late 1972, but the situation began brightening last spring. In the March congressional elections, Popular Unity enlarged its vote to 44 per cent, amazing observers who had predicted total collapse in Popular Unity strength. It is no surprise that coup post-mortems cite the 1970...
Allende is dead, but as Morris's book predicts, the revolution is far from over. Too many Chileans accustomed to nothing have glimpsed the future, and they will not surrender their dreams easily. Popular Unity has started a struggle that cannot be stopped. The struggle will continue by other means...