Chile prepares for presidential election SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) — Chile, a virtual island of constitutional democracy in a sea of military dictatorships at the southern end of South America, elects a new president Sept. 4. Although there have been rumblings of trouble from both the extreme left and the far right, the general expectation is the country will once again see an orderly succession as it has in every election since 1932. This is a long period of political stability in an area where the only other functioning democracy is tiny, troubled Uruguay. There are three popular presidential candidates for the six year term. Reading from left to right in the political spectrum, they are: Dr. Salvador Allende, 62, a Socialist, the Marxist standard bearer for the fourth time. His "popular unity" coalition consists of his own Socialists, the Communists, part of the traditional Radical party, renegade Christian Democrats who call themselves "MAPU," United Popular Action Movement and pro-Marxist Independents. - Radomiro Tomic, 56, former ambassador to Washington and candidate of President Eduardo Frei's populist reformist Christian Democrat party. Frei cannot succeed himself. Tomic promises to radicalize Frei's socioeconomic program called "revolution in liberty." - Jorge Alessandri, 74, presi dent from 1958 to 1964 an independent who is supported by the resurgent right, notably the National Party, a fusion of the former Conservative and Liberal parties which were all but obliterated by Frei's Christian Democrats in 1965. Alessandri champions free enterprise against the classic marxism of Allende and the creeping statism of Christian democracy. Rightist Allesandri's supporters, bolstered by early public opinion polls, are confident he will win the most popular votes, but they fear a Marxist Christian Democrat deal in Congress to award the presidency to the runner-up. If no candidate wins an absolute majority, Congress, constituted as an electoral college, must choose the president from among the top two candidates within 50 days of the election. With three strong candidates, an absolute majority for any one of them is unlikely-3.5 million Chileans are eligible to vote. Congress always has decided for the popular vote winner. Christian Democrat Tomic has said his party will preserve this tradition, providing the popular vote winner has "a substantial margin" over the runnerup. Party leaders close to Tomic say he is thinking in terms of a 50,000 vote difference. In the combined congress of 150 deputies and 50 senators, the right has 42 seats, Christian Democrats 75, and leftists 85. Congressional overturning of an Allesandri victory could spark violence by farm estate owners, who fear agrarian reform radicalization under Tomic or Allendr Army Commander Gen. Rene Schneider, considered unconditionally loyal to President Frei, has said the army will act to prevent anyone from impeding with the constitution. One fear is that if the army is called upon to put down violence from any quarter, it may be tempted to abandon the apolitical line that has characterized it for nearly 40 years. In the latter event, retired Gen. Roberto Viaux could become the man of the moment. Viaux is immensely popular with career soldiers—much more so than Schneider—for having led the successful October 1969 army pay revolt. On May 30, he told an assembly of retired officers gathered to honor him: "I have the profound conviction that sooner than is expected the law of force is going to surge again, and we must orient ourselves so that the force, in this case, be justly and rationally exercised so that it may count upon general acquiescence." The ambitious general is considered to be in the political center, with potential attraction for both rightists and nationalist leftists. Working actively to create in Chile "the objective conditions for armed revolution" called for by updated Marxist dogma is the leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR). So far the Castro inspired MIR has concentrated primarily on bank robberies to finance the promised armed revolution. Its leaders, mostly former students at Concepcion University, are fugitives under the criminal code and the state internal security act for the robberies and for espousing the armed overthrow of the government. A dozen rank and file "Miristas" have been captured, tried and sentenced. Allende's Socialist party has some influence with the young terrorists and is known to have asked them to put the quietus on violence until after the election. Whether they will heed their elders in revolution remains to be seen. The Socialist party itself endorsed the violent route to power at the last party congress in 1968, but only "when the objective conditions are givv.n." Most leaders of this doctrinaire Marxist party, founded in 1933, do not believe, as do the young Miristas, that the objective conditions can be "created." Allende's program of government calls for creation of "the popular state" and the nationalization of copper, nitrate, banking and insurance, foreign commerce, distribution monopolies. Marxist Allende is a robust medical doctor who was the public minister back in the "popular front" days of the late 1930s. "large enterprises and strategic industrial monopolies." Tomic, outgoing President Frei's man, is a Roman Catholic and father of nine, a spellbinder in debate. He hammers away at the "mystique of labor" and invokes the latent patriotic discipline of the Chilean working man. Tomic's program resembles Allende's in proposed state control of the economy and the existence of state, private and mixed enterprises and in the promise to accelerate the agrarian reform initiated by Frei. The third candidate, Allesandri, a bachelor at 74, enjoys apparently excellent health and possesses a stentorian voice with which he rasps out against "the demagogues of Christian democracy and marxism who would lead Chile to ruin." He promises an austere government which would bring tax relief through reduced public spending. He pledges to respect the housing, educational and agrarian reforms initiated by Frei and calls for constitutional reform to strengthen the president's hand against the factionalized congress. NOW YOU KNOW HONG KONG (UPI)—"It must be kept in mind that the 'sacred cow' in India is actually far more a bullock"—from India News, published by the Information Service of India. Hula hooper has other talents LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Twelve year old Melody Howe has performed piano solos with symphony orchestras, won the science fair with her project on metabolism, took first place in a creative writing contest with her poetry and draws recognizable portraits. But Melody achieved fame and fortune with her hula hoop. "I might be able to do more," she mused. "but I've only got 20." The reigning national hula hoop champion can twirl 20 of the plastic rings at once—around her ankles, knees, hips, waist, neck, arms and hands. She can also spin them around her legs while lying on her back, toss them up in the air and catch them with her feet, and do 19 different hoop tricks in a two minute time period. Melody, who learned to read July 28 KANSAN 5 1970 at age two and worked up to an encyclopedia by the time she was four, took up hula hooping less than two years ago when a neighbor child won the national contest. "She gave a demonstration at school and we were all pretty interested," Melody said. "My grandmother gave my little sisters hoops and I practiced with them at first. Everyone else at the park could twirl one around one leg except me. I got pretty disgusted." "I tried to think how to pick up the hoops economically without bending over to pick them up," Melody said. She invented a method of piling the hoops on the ground and hooking them over her foot, one at a time, sending them whirling around her ankle and moving them up her leg, then stepping in with the other foot. "If you go faster, they move up, and if you move slower, they drop down," she explained. "If I start to drop one, I move faster." or let it drop to my knees. I can always pick it up by bending my knees a little bit." The dark haired, bespectacled minister's daughter practices hula hooping every day, sandwiching it in between her schoolwork (she makes straight As) and her piano practice. She has taken piano lessons since she was three and has soLOed with the Beach Cities Symphony and the Peninsula Symphony in Southern California. She gives demonstrations at convalescent homes and parks and has appeared on several local television shows. CUSTOM LEATHER CRAFT from: Primarily Leather SANDALS - BELTS - WATCHBANDS BOOTS - BAGS - VESTS - MOCCASINS 812 Mass 842-8664 THIS TIME... THIS TIME... THEY'VE REALLY GONE BEYOND THE VALLEY of the DOLLS RATED X NO ONE UNDER AGE 18 ADMITTED — PROOF OF AGE REQUIRED — MATINEE DAILY—2:30 EVENINGS—7:15-9:20