Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have diplomatic relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides, he adds, "I prefer to have the Russians operating in the open as diplomats." Eventually, the Christian Democratic President plans to establish relations with such Communist-bloc countries as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. There is one specific exception, though. Cuba will continue to get the freeze...
...relaxation, travels 150,000 miles annually with his svelte wife Sonja, 38, inspecting regions and making courtesy calls on Presidents and Prime Ministers. Bata hires local labor for each plant but likes to shift key men from country to country: his Algerian plant is run by an American, a Chilean is in charge of Mexico, and at Batawa the chiefs for testing and efficiency are an Indian and a Pakistani. "We are cross-pollinators," says Bata. "We have no preferred nationality, after all, all men have two feet...
...Gaulle emerged, majestic and tanned, from the jet that had brought him home after his four-week, ten-nation tour of South America. The general bore an odd assortment of presents: an Argentine pony (asked De Gaulle when the presentation was made: "What does it eat?"), a Bolivian trumpet, Chilean spurs, a Colombian gold cigar box encrusted with emeralds (he does not smoke), and a Uruguayan whip appropriately inscribed, "Strike hard against the enemies of France." The return received dutiful top coverage by the state-owned television network, although the French had long since become bored with the general...
...sure that it didn't go through the Secretary of State," said one priest. "There are other ways to get to the Pope-not many, but a few." One way that the cardinals had not counted on was a press leak. Acting on his own, Chilean Journalist Gaston Cruzat, head of the Latin American bishops' press panel, released the memo's contents to Rome reporters...
...elected, Allende promises to organize all campesinos into unions, nationalize much of Chilean agriculture, plus all foreign commerce, private banks, public utilities, iron ore and nitrate mines and, of course, the U.S.-owned copper mines producing 11% of the world's copper. "We will bring the defeat forever of the oligarchy with a revolution within the law," he cries. Allende vaguely guarantees work and education for all, "massive" housing programs, and medical care for each and every worker. "Chile," he insists, "is a nation quite capable of sound development. But we are strangled by U.S. imperialism...