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thc United S tates by returning sol–
diers. Even more damaging, how–
evcr, was the new freer attitude
toward the entire drug scene. Cou–
pled with the moral decay of socie–
ty and subsequent prcssures on our
youths, this attilude has led lo alife
filled with escapism lhrough lhe
use of drugs.
Many of the "hard drug" users
of the sixties have switched to so–
callcd soft drugs, supposedly less
harmful. But thc demand for
hard drugs is on the increase
among youths of the new genera–
tion . Where wi ll it all end ?
There can be only one answer to
that question. M¡¡n, by himself,
cannot salve the problems he has
crcated. Only lhe People's Repub–
lic of China has paid the price lo
ovcrcome the maelstrom of drug
usage. What other nations are will–
ing to pay the same price in cen–
tralized autho rit y an d re–
ed ucat ion? T he plain truth is that
only in the soon-coming Ki ngdom
of God to this earlh, wi ll thc
vicious cycle be broken.
r
n tomor–
row's world undcr the government
of God, there will be no misery to
cause a desire for escapism-the
root cause of the drug problem
today. That is the good news that
The P/ain Truth
magazine is privi–
leged lo announce in advance.
The government of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth will exercise authority.
1t
will not be one based on lust for
power and greed.
lt
will reeducate
the nations so no one will be inter–
estcd in sponsoring policies that
lead to e nr iching sorne at the
expense of mu ltiplc rnillions of
othcr human beings.
lt
will teach
thc way of
give
instead of
get.
Drug abuse in the Wo rl d
Tomorrow will disappear through
the exercise of divine force and
total reeducation .
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n t he mean–
time, the nations at fault- Brit–
ain, Francc and the United
States-must contend with an
explosive epidemic of d rug abuse
among youths that reaches out
and touches all nations of thc
Free World .
o
EDITOR'S NOTE
In lhe previous ossue. on lhe article ..The
Real Value o l Bnlain' s Royal Family." ' King
Henry 111 ol England should have been con–
lemporary al llewelyn ap GruHyd .
Augusl , 1981
CHILI
(Continued from page 4)
visited scores of heads of state
an d government a r ou nd the
world, had been invited to Chile
by Presidenl Allende.
Bccause of the turmoil in thc
country, the president had to
leave the capital the day of his
expected meeting with Mr . Arm–
st rong. He asked that his chief of
protocol represent him by proxy
instead. Thr ec weeks latcr .
Allende lay dead in the very room
wherc Mr. Armstrong had been
received.
Unlikely Martyr
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n death, Allende became an
instant martyr for Communists
and Communist sympathizcrs
around the world. The coup
proved, they said, that a freely
clccted Marxist could never legal–
ly last out a full terrn of office.
Overlookcd purposely ig–
nored in many cases-were the
ruinous results of the Chilcan
Marxisl expcrimcnt. Also conve–
niently ignored was the fact that
Allende had becn trying to stay in
power by unconst itutional means,
specifically through creating his
own private army and by encour–
agi ng ongoing illegal seizures of
property.
A German bus inessman living
in Chile at the time of the ovcr–
throw perhaps explained the rcvo–
lution best: "This was not a coup
organized by arnbitious generals."
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t was the " last and only chance.' '
he said, to prevcnt Communists
from seizi ng power entirely.
Subsequenl reports of involvc–
mcnl in thc
golpe
(coup) by
America's Central ln tell igence
Agency (CIA) were exaggerated.
lmpart ial observcrs fee l the C IA
exerted very littlc influence. The
rage of the midd le classes in
Chile against the government had
become so intcnse by 1973 that
the coup would no doubt have
occurred with or without help
from Washington.
Enter the " New Economics"
T he overthrow initially changed
only the political courseofthecoun-
try. Economically, Chile lay pros–
trate. For a short whilc aftcrward.
inftation zoomed to a phenomenal
1,000 percent annual rate.
Searching for a way out of thc
mess, the leadcrs of the military
junta entrusted the task of rcvcrs–
ing the country's economic for–
tunes toa group of young Chilean
cconomists , who carne to be
known as the Ch icago Boys. All
had done their postgraduatc stud–
ies al lhe Univcrsity of Chicago
under Professor Millon Fri ed–
rnan, whose experlise had carncd
him a obel Prize for economics
in 1976.
Before thc cconomisls could
gel far, howcvcr. lhe near ly pros–
t rate economy was dealt two more
blows- lhis time not of Chilc's
own doing. In 1974, world oil
prices soared as the OPEC oil
cartel took charge. At the samc
time, becausc of the worldwidc
recession, lhe price of copper,
Chi le's leading export, plum–
meted.
In 1974, Chilc's cconorny hit
bottom when its gross national
product plunged an alarming 12.9
pcrcent.
In Chilc's darkest hours, lhc
cconomis ts wcnt to work, evcn
though the inilial effects of lhcir
reforms temporarily added to lhc
problení. They s larted pruning
back the suffocating bureaucracy.
returning the bulk of production
to prívate hands. T hey began lo
chop down the nearly unscalable
tariff walls lhal had virtual ly shut
Ch ile off frorn the world econo–
my.
The overall economic gamc
plan aimed at increasing national
wealth by maximizing national
growth- in othcr words, increas–
ing the "size of the pie" instead
of redislributing the poverty.
With econornic growth, it was
hoped thal lhc lot of the produc–
tive middle class would be
improved , while at the same time
generating a surplus to assisl lhc
extremely poor.
Yet another goa l wa s to
encourage thc fu ll utilization of
lhe resources for which Chile had
a natural advantage, resources
such as timbcr reserves, which
had been sorely neglected. In
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