ALLENDE WANTS SINGLE
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CHILEAN President Salvador Allende has appealed to the groups forming his popular unity coalition government to unite in a single party to fight the Congressional elections in May next year.
This would mean a fusion of the Communist Party and Allende's Social-Democrats with the bourgeois Radicals, who are also members of the coalition.
The call follows a sharp swing to the right in the government, which recently took more Radicals into the cabinet. The cabinet reshuffle was enthusiastically backed by the Stalinists.
The Radicals' main condition for increased participation was that Allende ensure the protection of property from expropriations by workers and peasants.
The Popular Unity government is billed as an 'experiment' in the peaceful road to socialism. While Allende and the Stalinists move to the right, however, the Chilean bourgeoisie, backed by the United States, is increasingly challenging for power.
In a speech to a rally at Concepcion on Monday night, Allende said he was disappointed by the 'sporadic' nature of recent demonstrations in support of his government. He has been holding crisis talks with the other members of his coalition since the by-election defeat of two Popular Unity candidates.
MRS GRACE TODD, wife of 63-year-old Garfield Todd,. says her husband is sick and might not survive a winter in detention.
Their 28-year-old daughter, Judith, arrested with her father on January 18, has gone on a hunger strike.
The Smith regime has refused to give any specific reason for the Todds' arrest and their name is disappearir.? from the Rhodesian press by order.
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