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Even until the end. Allende never swerved from his commitment to an orderly and democratic transition. The Right had begun to move against Popular Unity from the outset: businessmen sent badly needed investment capital abroad, distributers and the rightest press teamed up to exacerbate the notorious shortages, Patria y Libertad began to strike with bombings and assassinations. Although Allende encouraged the Left to organize outside the government, he never responded in kind to the Rightist attacks. He went so far as to bring the military into the government for stability as the Right's offensive peaked in late summer...
Allende ran for president twice, in 1958 and 1964, losing narrowly both times before finally winning the office in 1970. He entered the Moneda Presidential Palace amid rumors of international intervention and rightest moves against his Popular Unity Coalition of six Left parties. Despite the threat from the Right, Allende and his supporters revolutionized Chile in their brief stay in power. Led by Popular Unity and other Left groups, Chile nationalized the industries of the North American plunderers, redistributed land and income and expanded the scope of popular decision-making in the factories and the communities. Hundreds of thousands...
...both previous settlements evaporated when a combination of rightest Laotians and the United States government sought to undermine Laotian neutrality and shift the country into the Western camp...
...Rightest Kind. Fitzgerald-not coincidentally, one of her favorite authors -surely could have written her biography. Born into a middle-class family in Pound Ridge, N.Y., she had most of the right things: "artist parents," an education on scholarship at Rosemary Hall and Wellesley, a job as an editorial assistant to Diana Vreeland on Harper's Bazaar, even marriage to a good-looking Harvard grad. The marriage went nowhere for two years, then ended in a quiet divorce. "He was a nice guy," she says now. "We just had nothing in common. Nothing...
...meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky. "He'd seen me at Bazaar," she recalls, "and offered me $100 a week, twice what I was making. I was married then, and needed the money. Before I left, Diana Vreeland warned me, 'You can't leave now. You don't know enough.' " But Ali learns quickly, and she soon made herself a permanent studio fixture. She did everything: made up the models, adjusted the lighting, hunted for an endless variety of photographer's props all over...