CHILE: DR. ALLENDE SWORN IN AS CHILE'S FIRST MARXIST PRESIDENT.

Record ID: 1079617

  • Title: CHILE: DR. ALLENDE SWORN IN AS CHILE'S FIRST MARXIST PRESIDENT.
  • Date: 5th November 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV Parliament building 0.06 2. SV mounted escort arrives 0.11 3. TV Allende arriving and is greeted 0.17 4. LV int Allende and other ministers 0.24 5. LV members of cabinet 0.27 6. LV Allende receives sash from Frei 0.40 7. LV Cabinet members 0.41 8. LV Allende leaves chamber 0.49 9. GV crowds outside 0.54 10. TV Allende walks through crowds into building 1.05 11. CU crowd waving 1.08 12. LV ZOOM to Allende waving from balcony 1.15 Initials AH/AW/PS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th November 1970 13:00
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  • Location: SANTIAGO, CHILE
  • Country: Chile
  • Reuters ID: LVAAQRSI42BNAX9G4P2NG0GGLBAQ
  • Story Text:Dr. Salvador Allende, Latin America's first free-elected Marxist head of state, was formally installed as Chile's new head of state on Tuesday (November 3.)
    At a colourful ceremony in Santiago, the 62-year-old leader of the leftist Popular Unity Front was sworn in for a six-year term at a joint session of Congress. His new government includes three Communist and four Socialist ministers.

    Receiving the traditional sash of office from the outgoing President Eduardo Frei, Dr. Allende swore to respect the Chilean constitution. He has pledged that his government, though it will be neither Socialist nor Communist, will nevertheless lay the basic for a future Socialist state in Chile.

    Tens of thousands of cheering leftwing supporters of the new President jammed the streets around the Congress Building during the ceremony. Now they will be waiting to see whether the new government can carry out its leftwing programme of nationalisation while standing cordial relations with the United States and other western powers.
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