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Show o r0 Step for Chile Editor: Concerning the petty descant arranged and spiced by Mr. Leon Frazier of the events and people involved in the recent election in Chile, there are a number of points which must be accorded a more honorable treatment. The difficulty concerns his accusations and unwarranted attack upon the new President of Chile, Dr. Salvador Allendc. Fra-zier Fra-zier delights in singing songs about "a squat little fellow who. . . " lie allows himself the audacity of referring to President Allende as almost a "political joke" who will lead Chile down the royal red path to communism, insanity, death and whatever else those "Marxists" happen to do. He calls the electorial victory of the president a "freak accident" because he won by a slender margin in an election where a multiplicity of parties participate. I wonder what Frazier thinks of the Nixon victory in 1968. Frazier hopes that Chile will not be the first communist country coun-try on the Latin-American mainland. main-land. He forgets to mention that constitutional amendments have already been passed which specifically specifi-cally guarantee certain civil liberties. liber-ties. He expressed the view that freedom of the press will be abolished abo-lished as imports are shut off and the private newspapers are "wiped out" by this new communist tyrant. ty-rant. He neglects to mention that the Christian Democrats, the main opposing party in Chile, has already al-ready bought a chain of five newspapers, news-papers, some radio stations and other media devices. Perhaps most ridiculous and so characteristic of the amateur journalist jour-nalist is the last paragraph of Frazier's article. ". . . but Allende will probably take one tiny step forward to become president of Chile, and Latin America will take one giant step backwards for mankind." man-kind." There goes civilization. A man we hardly even know, even less understand, has the unique ability all of a sudden to drag men back into slavery, dictatorship, tyranny and whatever else Frazier thinks communism is. It's too much to demand that a man be innocent until proven guilty. REMM1Z SUKRAM Hands off Chile Editor: My reaction was one of surprise and strong dismay upon reading the signed statement of opinion in the Chronicle (Oct. 29, 1970) by Leon Frazier, entitled "Chile's 'Freak' ". The attitude portrayed by Mr. Frazier's angry words suggests that we in the United States have the right to interfere in the domestic do-mestic politics of other countries, despite public sentiment there. Mr. Frazier's characterization of Marxist President-Elect, Dr. Salvador Salva-dor Allende Gossens, as "one giant step backwards for mankind" man-kind" is not only an incredible overstatement but a slap at the people of Chile who have just elected him. We Americans like to pride ourselves on our faith in democracy. demo-cracy. Yet we contradict our faith if we claim some special right to direct the political affairs of other nations. Are not the people of Chile capable of electing whomever whom-ever they see fit as their next President. Mr. Frazier's objections to Dr. Allende stem from the lattcr's Marxist program. The ideas in this program are basically the same which Dr. Allende has advocated in three prior election campaigns. If the people of Chile have now decided that a radical solution to that nation's serious social and economic inequalities may now be considered in the Chilean Congress, Con-gress, 1 don't see that this is really the concern of Mr. Frazier. Are we so childish that the only kind of democracy we support is that which allows our kind of candidate candi-date to win. EDWARD C. EPSTEIN Disappearing act Editor: One of the oldcsl departments at the University, the Department of Anthropology, is being faced with extinction. The promised home of anthropology, Stewart School, is being blatantly parcelled parcel-led out by uninformed administrators admini-strators who have no understanding understand-ing of the work and needs of the department. The 1967 space allotment, which was barely satisfactory at the time, is being decreased at the same time that the department is expanding, while other departments depart-ments in the social and behavioral sciences are given newer and larger facilities. While not being fans of Robert Ardrey's "Territorial Imperative" perhaps it could be put to a test. When priceless artifacts, collected over the past 63 years by the department, arc being moved to buildings condemned as fire hazards, haz-ards, it is time to protest. If you do not want to take your anthropology anthro-pology classes sitting on the curb of University Street, give us support sup-port by writing the Building Planning Plan-ning Committee (care of Mr. Bradford) Brad-ford) and protest this devious plan. ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOC. |
