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Allende
The Grapes of Wrath
He said that if he lost the
election, he would demand that this
be his epitaph: "Here lies Salvador
Allende Gossens, future President
of Chile."
Those words still seem fitting.
For although the new military
government of Chile has announced
that Allende killed himself, his
ideals will live on. So, in a sense,
the man who sought social justice
for the poor will continue to rule.
When he was elected president in
1970, he said his goals included
redistribution of land, higher wages
for the poverty-stricken working
class and nationalization of major
industries.
Few of these goals were
achieved. Mo sooner was he
inaugurated than thousands
withdrew their savings from banks,
the national stockmarket closed for
the first time in 34 years and
inflation climbed to its highest level
in the country's history. In such a
situation it isn't easy to be a social
messiah.
But it wasn't internal conflict
alone which helped bring about his
overthrow. ITT and other American
firms who feared their assets in
Chile would be nationalized,
attempted to stir domestic unrest.
If they succeeded at all in bringing
about chaos, violence and Allende's
downfall then they share the blame
for his death.
No doubt those persons who
hated the Marxist president will be
relieved at the news of his death.
Still, they might sigh too soon.
The ideals which Allende held
will be an inspiration toother third
world leaders. They will remember
not his failures, but his compassion
for the poor, his belief in
democratic constitutional rule and
his yearning to govern a country
free of pressure from the world's
more powerful nations.
Salvador Allende Gossens, the
future President of Chile.
Michael (O.J.) Nelson
eth londgren
desperate
remedies
The problem is th.it there is no corresponding way to loam
the (kite. There ate no public calendars. There is no quick,
convenient way to learn the day on the entire UNL campus.
The year seems to come easy to most of us. It doesn't
change often and it usually has something distinctive about it
like 1973, the year of the Goodyear Blimp. And it's generally
easy to tell Tuesday or Thursday from Monday, Wednesday, or
Friday, which is close enough for most of us anyway.
Flie solution, a despetate remedy if ever one existed, is this:
every morning ,)t two the door of the Administration building
opens. Two men come out carrying an enormous number, a 7
or a 1 , whatever number the day is. They carry the number
to a predetermined location between Broyhill Fountain and
Teachers College and -.et it down. Hundreds of students cheer
the Changing (Jf the Date, for they have been to Casey's and
are going to other place;. They are- excited, for they know the
day and life goes on.
Nixon, clocks
keep on ticking
Piesident Nixon':, veto of a bill raising the minimum wage
once again demon,!' Vitus the arrogance of the Nixon approach.
Wounded by tin; failuie of his economic policies, he lashes out
at the most politically expedient target: the poor of this
nation.
Nixon inay not lx; an evil man, but he is without question a
thoroughly political man. The fact is that exploiting the lowest
paid workers in the nation make;, sense politically. The poor
don't have lobbyists. They don't vote requlailv and often
don't know their congressman's name. They're not likely to
cause Nixon trouble.
I he poor still exist in this country, regardless of how Nixon
sees things. They earn $1 .GO an hour and have for years, while
the price of everything else has gone up. Much of their income
is spent on food, and fast rising food prices pinch them as they
pinch no one else.
Nixon wasn't elected by promising to be the champion of
the weak. Still, it must be frightening to be among the poor in
Richard Nixon's America.
The regular visitor to campus, if observant, is struck by the
number and varieties of clocks around him. On a walk from
the north door of the Union to the south door one finds four
electric clocks on a cube above the main desk, three
grandfather clocks in the lounge, a metal clock by the west
door, a standard electric clock in the TV lounge and a nearly
infinite numtxr around the south desk.
Leaving the Union one may be screamed at, sung to and
misled. Clocks in the Coliseum have no idea what time it is and
don't care. Bells ring at 20 and 30 minutes past the hour, more
or less. Mueller Tower sings at some regular interval.
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thursday, soptcrnljer 13, 1973