Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three U.S. corporations (Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro) who now hold part-ownership. The companies are claiming that they have invested over $ 1 billion in the mines; the government is unlikely to set the sum anywhere near that high. How Allende conducts these negotiations will determine the state of U.S.-Chilean relations for some time to come. Whatever the results, there is some doubt as to the immediate benefits for Chile: the world price for copper has tumbled from 88? to 48? per pound in the past year. That drop could further worsen Chile's current 9% rate of unemployment...
...time being, however, Allende has never been more popular with Chileans at large. He has distributed some 5,230 tons of powdered milk in a heroic (though not quite successful) effort to keep his campaign pledge to provide a quart of milk a day for every Chilean under 15. His government has ordered 500,000 pairs of shoes for free distribution to rural schoolchildren. He has refused to permit the customary presidential portrait to be hung in government buildings and budgeted the savings to rural health programs. By imposing price controls, he hopes to shrink inflation from...
Other possibilities include Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei; Ceylon's U.N. Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe; former U.N. Ambassador Endalkachew Makonnen of Ethiopia; and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan of Iran, uncle of the Aga Khan and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. When the points are added up, however, it is hard to beat the score of a certain soft-spoken Asian who comes from a small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that...
...urban guerrillas who were sprung from Brazilian jails in return for the release of kidnaped Swiss Ambassador Enrico Giovanni Bucher. The Brazilians, most of student age, were warmly received. When one bellowed "Down with the Brazilian dictatorship!" as he stepped off the plane, a claque of admiring Chilean students chorused back: "Down, down, down, down...
...future in Castro's hardscrabble country even before they arrived. Still, Chile is not even trying to match the amenities available in Algeria, where President Houari Boumedienne provides visiting revolutionaries with housing, $500 a month in expenses, air-travel vouchers and even artillery practice. After the initial abrazos, Chilean officials put the arriving Brazilians up in welfare dormitories, then told them that they would be on their own after 15 days...