Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens is beginning to sound and act like a man who is fighting for his political life. In February, the Chilean Congress, which is dominated by the opposition Christian Democratic and National parties, passed a constitutional reform bill that would prohibit the President from nationalizing any more private firms without congressional approval. If it should become law, the ban would be retroactive to October 1971. Last week Allende angrily vetoed the bill. He further declared that if his veto were overridden, he would introduce a measure to dissolve the Congress, and if Congress...
...maker of pulp and cellulose and a major shareholder in Comsat. Overseas it has been rolling like Patton's Third Army into cosmetics, food products, auto parts and construction materials. Last year it employed almost 400,000 people in 67 countries. They generated sales of $7.3 billion, excluding Chilean and insurance operations, and profits of $337 million...
...Alpert, who recently returned from a trip to Chile, will speak on the revolution in that country with Fernando Leiva, a Chilean student, and Andy Zimbalist, a graduate student at Harvard, tonight at the Union Ballroom, Boston University Student Center...
...those who say the days of Chile's popular government are numbered, I say that they can swallow their tongues." So recently declared Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, the first Marxist head of state to win office through a free election. Nonetheless, wagging tongues inside and out of Chile continue to predict doom for Allende's 14-month-old Popular Unity coalition. Their predictions may be premature, but Chile's economic problems are steadily worsening, and the opposition forces of the Christian Democrats and the rightist National Party are increasing their attacks on Allende, whose popularity...
...weeks ago, the Chamber of Deputies approved the impeachment proceedings, thereby requiring the Senate-in which the opposition has a majority of one-to sit in judgment on Tohá. Under the Chilean constitution, a Cabinet officer faced with impeachment proceedings is automatically suspended from his post. Furious, Allende challenged the Chamber by making Tohá the acting Defense Minister and giving his old portfolio to Defense Minister Alejandro Ríos Valdivia, a moderate leftist. The opposition immediately complained that Allende was illegally circumventing the constitution...