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Word: chileanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency, the Marxist candidate, Dr. Salvador Allende, had received the highest vote, polling 36% v. 35% for his rightist opponent, former President Jorge Alessandri, and 28% for the candidate of President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, Radomiro Tomic. Since no candidate won a popular majority, the Chilean Congress must decide between Allende and Alessandri on Oct. 24. In the meantime, just about everyone in Chile was acting as if Allende had already become the first Marxist head of state ever to be elected freely in the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Chile: The Making of a Precedent | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...moderate leftist Tomic an inauspicious third. The race between Allende and Alessandri was extremely close, but it appeared that Allende had emerged with a narrow popular victory. In any case, since no candidate won an absolute majority, the contest will not be settled until late next month, when the Chilean Congress will select one of the two top vote-getters-Allende or Alessandri-as the new President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Difficult Choices | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...created dangerously conflicting anxieties in the electorate, and those concerns are reflected in the spectrum of presidential candidates. Allende, a physician by training, has done most to dramatize the tragic conditions. As a panacea, he promises to nationalize mining, banking and foreign trade, and see to it that every Chilean baby has a pint of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Crucial Decision | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

Since none of the candidates is likely to win a majority in the Sept. 4 election, the contest will probably be settled next month by the Chilean Congress. Any outcome is possible. But the reluctance of Allende and Tomic to create ill feeling by criticizing each other during the campaign could be a sign that they are considering the possibility of a leftist coalition if Alessandri should poll the most votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Crucial Decision | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...past, the Chilean Congress has always selected the candidate who received the largest number of popular votes. But it is not legally bound to do so, and the leftist parties control by far the largest bloc of votes in Congress. The Congressmen must bear in mind, however, that if they put a Communist-backed President into office, the army may decide to enter its own ballot in the form of a swift coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Crucial Decision | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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