Word: chileanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was none of the jostling, banner-waving excitement of a normal Chilean election. The festooning posters that usually blot out Santiago were scarcely in evidence, and even the slogans were muted. That is the way Eduardo Frei, Chile's new Christian Democratic President, wants it. Next week, when 2,920,000 voters choose a full Assembly and half of the Senate, the issue, as Frei somberly puts it, is whether or not they will "make a Parliament for Frei"-in other words, make it possible to carry out the platform on which he was elected last September...
...head-to-head campaign against Chile's powerful, Communist-dominated leftists, Frei (pronounced Fray) was swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where...
Rarely had a Chilean President taken office amid such great expectations. "The whole atmosphere reflected the same spirit as F.D.R.'s first hundred days," said a Western ambassador, recalling the Nov. 3 inauguration of Eduardo Frei as Chile's 36th President...
Zero for Three. While he received the greatest endorsement ever given a Chilean President (55% of the vote), Frei faced a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats held only 33 of 192 seats. With new elections coming up March 7, the Congressmen have been arguing and doodling away their time, have refused even to hear government ministers in defense of some key bills...
What happened to Frei's request for new presidential powers illustrates his problem. Frei asked for the right to create four new ministries, set up a national economic planning office, and modify tariffs as necessary, all of which required congressional approval. Every Chilean President has made similar requests upon assuming office, and Congress has normally granted permission with a minimum of todo. This time, right-wing conservatives joined left-wing Communists and Socialists to talk the proposal to death, arguing that "Frei is trying to concentrate too much power in one man's hands." Seeing the futility...