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Some are already panicking. Freaks, radicals and striving novelists of yesteryear now talk about "Law School." Other speak vaguely of such things as "living off the land" or "starving in a garrett someplace in Europe" or "getting this really neat house in Chile" (wherever that is). And there are the one-liners about marriage, the ministry, revolution, and that old Harvard standard, suicide...
...Stadium. We'll not bother to make our rooms attractive. We'll lose our Coop cards and wear dirty underwear. We'll spend the best hours of the day at the movies, and, when everything has unreeled, we'll discover that the Bick has closed forever and Chile is in South America...
...dissenting votes in the secret ballot went to Chile's José Piñera and Saudi Arabia's Jamil Baroody. The irrepressible Baroody often gets one vote, and there is a growing suspicion that he casts it for himself...
...Failings of Previous Regimes: It took twelve years for our congress to pass a bill giving medical assistance to workers' families. Chile is a mining country where workers are exposed to silicotuberculosis, yet it took 26 years to pass a bill providing compensation to a worker's family in case of accident or job-related disease. The medical school (at the University of Chile) burned down 19 years ago, but the new school is still not finished. There has been a total disregard for the human resources of Chile...
...Chile's Aspirations: In essence we want to be an economically independent country with the right to choose our own path. We are believers in self-determination of the people, and in nonintervention. We want to maintain the best relations with all the countries of the world, and we hope that the American Government will understand that. Our revolution is within the right of a sovereign state...