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Ken Morgan
During a news conference last
year. President Ford made a
rather startling, though not
surprising , revelation to the
American people. The chief
executive calmly stated that the
United States had indeed in
terfered in the domestic affairs
of Chile.
Mr. Ford admitted that the
United States actively sought to
depose the government, led by
the late Salvatore Allende. Mr.
Ford went on to say that this
was done in the best interest of
the Chilean people. Apparently
a government that was at
tempting to eliminate poverty,
unemployment, hunger and
other forms of misery was not in
the best interests of the people
of Chile. It seems that certain
elements in the United States
government arrived at the
brillant conclusion that the
Chilean people would derive
greater benefit from a fascist
government that has murdered
approximately 20,000, im
prisoned and tortured
thousands of others, and even
LETTERS
Say Hello?
The Editors:
In regard to the editorial “Say
Hello" concerning the campus
operator, we suggest that the
person or persons who are in
agreement with this complaint
should become more informed
before making accusations
about something that they
obviously know very little
about.
The GIST line is operated by
the State of Georgia
Telecommunications Office,
which is a division of the State
Government The campus
operators are State employees
and have every legal right to
make sure the calls placed are
of a business nature.
The editorial went on to say
that the use of the line is free of
charge, which is entirely in
correct. Each department is
billed for their use of the line.
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Kissinger and Allende
caused over 100,000 people to
lose their jobs for their
political beliefs. There must be
many Chileans who feel that
“with friends like the United
States, who needs enemies?"
Mr. Ford made the ac
cusation that President Allende
surpressed all opposition to his
policies The facts do not sup
port this charge. Not only did
the Allende goverment allow
the opposition press to operate,
but copies of the anti-Allende
periodical. "El Mercurio," in
1973. the year of the coup, were
available for reading in the
waiting room of the Chilean
ambassador in Washington.
By what methods did our
government intervene in Chile?
During the 1970 presidential
elections in Chile, the United
States Central Intelligence
Agency funnelled $750,000 into
Chile in an abortive attempt to
thwart the election of Salvatore
Allende. After this failure the
CIA supplied $8 million to
Allende’s opponents. Over S3O
million in military equipment
Faculty, staff, and a few
authorized students have access
to this system. We are con
tinually instructed to make sure
that the calls placed by students
are business. If they persist in
making personal calls, we have
every right to disconnect their
call and discontinue their
privileges. If the students would
show a little responsibility there
would be no need to monitor the
calls.
The Operators
Bye Hatvkeye
The Editors:
May I borrow a few inches of
space in this column to say good
bye to an old friend? For the
loyal ones of us who read David
Willingham's weekly ob
servations on life and the
human drama, he gave us a
sorely needed break to laugh
with him and perhaps at our-
was supplied by the United
States to the Chilean armed
forces. This very same hard
ware was, and is, being used to
terrorize the people of Chile.
Even the American cor
poration, ITT, got into the act. A
senate investigation conducted
in March of 1973 revealed that
this corporate giant attempted
to bribe the CIA to "get rid of
Allende." This is only a partial
list of the American efforts to
bring down a constitutional
government. All of these antics,
for the most part, were carried
out, with the knowledge of
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger.
It is now known that both,
Secretary of State Kissinger
and Secretary of Defense
Schlesinger had knowledge of
this intrigue. Yet, during the
course of a Senate investigation
conducted during February,
1973, they denied any knowledge
of such events. Some people
would be inclined to call that
perjury.
In view of this information it
selves.
He’ll be leaving this quarter
and “The West Georgian" just
won’t be the same. The past
three years Fve been digesting
his weekly Southern-fried,
Lampoonish humor and loving
it.
Perhaps a certain bias is
dictated towards him. Yes, I
must admit it fully. I’ve lived
with this clown for over 20 years
and spent too many miles on the
road to Chattanooga and back
with him to be otherwise. I’ve
seen the best and the funniest in
him, parts pershps only a
brother could see.
People, this is your last
chance. Turn over a few pages
and be entertained.
It’s been great old friend. I
raise a full glass of Schlitz and
salute “Here’s looking at you
kid.”
Stave Willingham.
Real Richter
The Editors:
I find a certain degree of
controversy arising from my
letter. This seems to be based
on two factors: the personal
nature of my attacks on Don
Wells and the anonymity of one
Nelson Randall. As to the latter,
after reading Don Wells’ letter I
felt a strong need to respond to
what I felt to be the fallacies of
his thinking; and having just
that same week had a letter to
the editor published I did not
want to risk the chance that the
editors would not publish
another letter by the same
person. It was in no way a
desire to remain anonymous.
Regarding the personal at
tacks on Mr. Wells. I feel it
necessary to point out that I do
not even know the man per
sonally, I was responding
merely to his thinking as it is
manifested in his letter. With
that in mind let me say that I
resent bitterly rhetorical
phrases such as “program
equilibrium,” and “positive
effect on the larger interest of
the discipline” which com
pletely disregard the human
element (i.e. me). In
must be concluded that certain
United States officials, in
cluding Henry Kissinger, must
bear part of the guilt for the
* WHY ME , U3RP ? "
rationalizing the school’s un
willingness to meet the demand
for such a program, it is far too
easy to resort to statistics and
verbiage, obscuring fun
damental issues. However, my
immediate future is very much
concerned with this specific
issue; and if it is possible that I
am not going to be able to
continue with my graduate
studies at this college as a result
of petty campus politics than let
the issues be discussed openly,
and not under such questionable
headings as “program
equilibrium” and the “tail
wagging the dog.”
Is the issue really one of the
psychology department seizing
control of the school? I hardly
think we pose, or have any
desire to pose, such a threat. Or
is it perhaps nothing more than
good old-fashioned prejudice
working against the
stereotypical image of the
“humanists" (whatever they
are), such as is perpetuated by
the inane column (please note
editors the word is inane, not
inate) of David Willingham.
Far from wishing to remain
anonymous, I am only too
happy to openly confront the
questions at hand; is Dr.
Wells?
Neil C.. Richter
Aron’s Reply
The Editors:
On Monday morning, Dr. Don
Wells came to see me concerned
over what he considered to be
possible collusion on the part of
me and other members of the
psychology faculty in writing a
series of letters which appeared
in “The West Georgian” last
Friday. One of these letters was
written by me, and appeared as
a position paper,
another was written by Ms.
Connie Schultz who is a
graduate student in the
department and a third ap
peared under the name of
Nelson Randall. It turns out that
the name “Nelson Randall”
does not appear on any un
dergraduate or graduate
students list of psychology
majors. Dr. Wells said he could
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tragic events which followed the
American backed overthrow of
the democratically elected
Allende government.
not find this name on any
student list.
I would like to make the
following statement concerning
this incident:
There was no collusion direct
or subtle. I personally did not
know that anybody was going to
write another letter responding
to Dr. Wells. I never mentioned
Dr. Wells’ letter of Feb. 1, let
alone discuss it at length, with
others in the department during
the week. My own letter was
written at home last Tuesday
night and was given to the
secretary to be put immediately
into an envelope and taken to
the West Georgian Wednesday
morning. I said nothing in that
letter that I had not already
communicated to Dr. Wells by
telephone the day after bis
letter appeared. I thought his
letter concerning the
moratorium was misinformed.
Our differences were on issues,
not on personalities.
If the name “Nelson Randall’’
is a pseudonym, I very seriously
doubt that this was written by a
member of our faculty.
Whatever the reason for using
a pseudonym, this practice
lends itself to the suspicion of
cowardice. One can launch a
massive attack on anybody
without making themselves
vulnerable. I find the practive
of attacking personalities, when
these are not the issue,
narrowing, rather than opening,
baiting rather than debating,
hostile rather than aggressive
and insulting, where as in the
case of this issue, insult is un
warranted. Unhappily for WGC,
this practice of personalizing
issues has become too common,
even at the “highest" levels of
debate. Personalizing of attacks
on Dr. Bryson in Carrollton and
from scholars at other state
institutions is a most relevant
example.
As to Mr. Willingham’s
column, I laughed until I found
out who I was laughing at. I
would love to recruit a man of
such talent and who can also
teach us savages to read and
write. Alas, our understaffing
problem.
Mike Arons
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