Word: chileanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Carlos Ibañez del Campo, 82, Chilean strongman who forced his way to the presidency in 1927, held office until 1931, was elected to a second term (1952-58) by a huge majority because of popular disgust with inflation but initiated economic reforms only at the cost of his popularity; of cancer; in Santiago, Chile...
...such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea of intervention into Cuban affairs is as distasteful to the U.S. as would be intervention into domestic affairs of any other American republic. In all candor I must state that many longtime friends of Cuba . . . have been gravely disillusioned by betrayals...
...letter President Eisenhower received in Santiago last month from the Federation of Chilean Students was serious in tone, and the President took it seriously. He turned it over to the State Department for a careful answer. Last week the answer, edited by the President himself, was delivered in Santiago to Patricio Fernandez, president of the students' federation...
...Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500-mile flight from Bogotá, Colombia. Next came 1,175 men of the crack U.S. 82nd Airborne and a planeload of Colombian soldiers. Chilean and Peruvian F-80 jets joined U.S. F-100 Super Sabres to provide air support. For the first time, in "Exercise Banyan Tree II," Latin nations were joining the U.S. in a peacetime maneuver...
...luncheon and dinner. In Argentina, one group of committeemen closeted themselves for 1½ hours with Economy Minister Alvaro Alsogaray while another met with eleven top educators, heard earnest argument for more fellowships for study in the U.S. In Chile, the team of Holland and Milton Eisenhower listened to Chilean university heads explain their dilemma as a conflict between a developing nation's obligation to concentrate on technical learning without neglecting liberal arts. Said Finance Minister Roberto Vergara after a long meeting with Donnelly, Knight and Meyer: "They expressed opinions about nothing, but they asked about everything...