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Chile's General Rene Schneider. In October 1970, Schneider, commander in chief of Chile's army, was killed while resisting a kidnaping attempt. President Nixon in September had ordered the CIA "to play a direct role in organizing a military coup in Chile to prevent [Salvador] Allende's accession to the presidency," and the kidnaping was viewed as an indispensable and unavoidable element in that coup. As it happened, the CIA five days before had withdrawn its support of the particular group that pulled off the kidnaping that resulted in the general's death...
...Schneider is more explicit about Hall's role. "It's a one-man operation," Schneider says. "He owns it. He runs it. He's the works, everything. When he goes, it goes." Schneider says Hall inherited the school from his father...
Hall runs the school to "maximum efficiency, "Schneider says, adding that it is not as busy as it once was, when it was full until late in the evening with tutoring programs. "I guess I like it," Schneider says of the school. "I'm very free to teach what I want, when I want, where I want. The lack of bureaucracy and meetings at Manter Hall appeals to Schneider, who feels that the absence of restrictions is the biggest advantage of teaching at Manter Hall. He calls the pay scales "low," however, and says that given a chance...
...Schneider describes Manter Hall as "relatively strict, because you have to do your homework, you have to be neat." His winning smile flashing through his heavy beard, he notes that Manter Hall has few problems in comparison to public schools because "there is no threat to life and very little theft." He comments that most of the problems at Manter Hall center on individuals, rather than the administrative structure of the school...
This "funny little school," as Schneider calls it, gazes down upon Mt. Auburn St. From its vantage point atop Elsie's, existing as an isolated, anonymous island in the midst of Harvard. The director emphasizes its virtues, just as predictably as students harp on its considerable defects. In a sense, Manter Hall students are sacrificing standard high school facilities for special attention that they could not receive elsewhere. As one student remarks, "It's a pain, but it's an education...