Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atilio Boron, a Government graduate student specializing in Chilean affairs said Allende's percentage of the total vote was "a great victory." He added that it was the first election in the twentieth century in which an incumbent Chilean president had increased his support in the parliament
...show sweat now that foreign bosses are out. Industrial production in October, the most recently recorded month, fell 7% from the same period a year earlier, and farm output in 1972 was down roughly 10% from 197 1. The quality of production has slumped in nearly every category: most Chilean bread, for instance, is now a coarse, sour, brown sludge that produces more gas than nourishment. Allende is talking about handing back to Chilean businessmen some of the companies that his government earlier expropriated but now cannot manage...
...suburb of Carrasco. Along with 24 friends and relatives, they were making a trip to Chile for a series of matches. Because of bad weather in the mountains, the plane was forced to stop at Mendoza, Argentina. The players used the layover to stock up on chocolate for their Chilean hosts...
Preaching at a thanksgiving Mass in Montevideo for the survivors and their families, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Eduardo Rodríguez said: "What happens to them will depend on us now, and on the love and understanding that we are capable of giving them." As a Chilean paper asked rhetorically in the headline of one story about the incident: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE...
...Allende was more concerned with his reception in Moscow-and with good reason. Only the Russians seemed willing, or able, to extend the financial aid needed to bail out the Chilean economy. As it turned out, Allende got somewhat less than he hoped for. At Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week he was met by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who assured him that "you are not alone in your struggle." In subsequent talks, the Soviet leaders agreed to increase economic aid (currently running at about $20 million a year), but they were not prepared...