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...Quito nightclub; he showed up sloshed for his talk with President Kennedy on a state visit to the U.S. last July, almost fell on his face at Guayaquil's airport five months later when he went out to greet Chile's strait-laced President Jorge Alessandri...
Frei's party is still weaker than either President Jorge Alessandri's three-party government coalition or the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front, which came within a shade of winning the presidency in 1958. But both the government coalition and the Popular Action Front lost ground in last week's voting, and Frei thinks that they will continue to slip, paving his way to the presidency in 1964. "There are three things working in our favor," says Frei. "First, people are tired of the present political juxtaposition. Second, people don't want a rightist government. Third...
...times embarrassed his nation. At first, occasional two-or three-day toots drew little attention. Then during his state visit to the U.S. last year, Arosemena managed to show up wobbly at a private chat with President Kennedy. Some months later, when Chile's dignified, austere President Jorge Alessandri visited Ecuador, Arosemena nearly collapsed as he tried to give his guest the traditional abrazo at the airport, then insisted on conducting the brass band. At cocktails, Arosemena saw that Alessandri's champagne glass stood untouched, plucked the goblet from beneath his guest's nose and guzzled...
Nevertheless, Alessandri had some real progress to report in Washington. Over the past two years, he told the OAS, "we achieved a 30% increase over our long-term average of investment, a 300% increase in the rate of construction of low-cost housing, a 100% increase in public spending on health, and a 55% increase in expenditures for education." In two sessions with Kennedy, the Chilean President said that his country needed outside aid to bolster its economy and to continue developing, but he made it clear that Chile intends to help itself as well. Paraphrasing an old Kennedy cadence...
...their private talks, Kennedy put Alessandri's mind at ease about one of his worries: whether the U.S. still stands squarely behind Chile's ambitious $10 billion development plan to build new industry and roads, irrigation projects and modern housing in the next ten years. Alessandri feared that the U.S. Government might be sufficiently disturbed by Chile's recent fiscal troubles to have second thoughts about its earlier plans to provide at least a billion dollars in Alliance for Progress aid during the next decade. Kennedy assured him that the U.S. will stand by its pledge...