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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Right & Left. Frei proposes a state bank to force down the high interest rates charged by Chile's private banks and thus help rein in inflation (up 38% in 1964), land reform to distribute unused or badly administered estates to 100,000 landless peasants, tax reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country...
...enfuriated Britain's partners in the European Free Trade Association, but has failed to improve her balance of payments. The wage and price review boards which the government proposed last week will depend on voluntary compliance, and no one pretends they can end inflation. The rise in the bank rate from 5% to 7% has helped to keep capital inside Britain, but has also inhibited investment. And the program of increased government spending, designed to stimulate the economy, must be followed by broader measures...
...nonetheless keeps the action tumbling in and out of mirrors, closets, mantels, trap doors. And sneaky camerawork by France's formidable Henri Decae imbues the décor with glittering menace. As the ne'er-do-well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note, Delon is a rake smoothly handled by Temptress Albright and coltish Actress Fonda, who comes through as a sort of cheerleader turned femme fatale. Together, they make Joy House as sportive as a carnival crazy house, brimful of absurd surprises...
...Students for a Democratic Society plan to picket Boston firms that trade with South Africa and will stage a sit-in at the First National Bank of Boston on March 19 to protest U.S. economic involvement in South Africa...
Tentative plans call for picketing along Federal St. in front of the main offices of the Kendall Corporation and United Shoe Machinery, firms which trade with South Africa. The First National Bank, target of the sit-in, recently financed a floating loan to the South Africa government...