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...this, the concluding section of President Allende's speech to Mexican students in December 1972, he encourages the students not to abandon their duty to their fellow citizens. He explains that it is difficult to retain socialist beliefs amid the corrosive effect of capitalist society, but he expresses his confidence that they will be able to shun the status-seeking temptations of middle-class life...
President Allende's own life was proof that the tasks he sets before the Mexican students in this speech can be accomplished. This belief, that educated people need not and should not abandon those upon whose bent and broken lives their successes are built, appears even stronger in retrospect, after Allende's tragic death. He remained loyal to his convictions until the end. One only wishes his fellow Chilean doctors had shared his sense of compassion and understanding...
...Medical School will abandon the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital (BCH) and the Harvard faculty will move its research activities to Beth Israel Hospital...
Already Evers is talking about running for governor again in 1975. Given the fact that black population in Mississippi is declining yearly, the smartest thing Evers can do is abandon any hope of winning and concentrate on developing strong local organizations, many of which have floundered since his last campaign. If it does nothing else Berry's perceptive study makes clear that Evers must use his charismatic appeal to help develop local black machines if black politics is to make a lasting impact on the South...
...Mexican journalist in Santiago, Manuel Mejido, managed to interview 15 of the people who claim to have last seen Allende alive. According to his account, the President assembled close friends in the palace and told them: "I will not abandon La Moneda. They will only take me out of here dead." The group included ten members of the security force and 30 youths of a private guard known as el Grupo de Amigos Personales (the Group of Personal Friends...