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FORTY PER CENT of the pre-school age children in the slums of Santiago, Chile have IQ's of less than 80, their minds stunted by malnutrition. One-third of those who die each year in Chile are children. When Dr. Salvador Allende's Popular Unity Government took office in late 1970, one of its slogans was, "The only privileged ones will be the children...
Salvador Allende was a medical student in Santiago when he helped form the Socialist Party of Chile in the early 1930s. He served briefly as Minister of Health in a left-leaning government in the late thirties, attempting to distribute milk nationwide to ward off gnawing malnutrition...
...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 of Chileans regularly clogged the streets in Santiago to demonstrate in support of what was finally their government...
Chile was in ferment last week throughout its 2,800-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...
Talk of civil war was in the air and Allende continued to trade on it with his slogan "Allende or civil war." TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch cabled from Santiago: "A new possibility has emerged: Allende and civil war. Indeed, there are signs that this is the situation now-a civil war whose nature has gone unrecognized because it has been far too civil when judged by historical precedents, and because the President who has so often equated civil war with his own removal remains in office...