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...along with hundreds or thousands of unknown heroines and heroes, since the generals seized power. The mourners who braved the generals' cameras and spies to sing the International at Neruda's funeral Tuesday mourned not only Neruda but also Chilean freedom, those assassinated by the generals, and Salvador Allende, the president who had fought for freedom and the people...
...final crescendo of middle-class rebellion that toppled the socialist government of Salvador Allende was led by Chilean truck owners, whose month-long strike against Popular Unity caused the shortages which helped cripple the government. Most of the truck-owners were not giant monopolists, but small businessmen, owners of one or a few trucks who were honestly fearful that Popular Unity planned to expropriate their property. They acted from fear, a fear that their world was about to be shattered. They could have acted no other way. And yet they helped overthrow a government dedicated to greater freedom and justice...
...SALVADOR ALLENDE thought he could travel in Legalist road to justice. He banked that Chile's tradition of stable democracy and the historical neutrality of the armed forces would protect Popular Unity from extra-legal moves from the right. He adhered to strict legality, hoping that the success of the socialist programs would gradually add to his slender mandate until socialism was backed by a clear majority...
...doubt that I could do any of these things. But when I think of Salvador Allende cradling his machine-gun in the presidential palace which shells whine in and bombs explode, when I picture this calm and gentle doctor peering at the soldiers destroying socialism in Chile while children cry for milk in Santiago slums, these things become easier to contemplate...
Ironically, the panel formed to study the multinational question was approved largely because of Chile's explosive accusations that ITT, the $8.6 billion U.S. multinational, had tried to prevent Salvador Allende from assuming the nation's presidency in 1970. The hearings began on the day of Allende's overthrow...