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...government of President Jorge Alessandri counts heavily on foreign aid, does not intend to levy emergency taxes on foreign companies, Chilean corporations or the Chilean rich. And foreign aid is pouring in. West Germany has offered to rebuild Valdivia; Argentina will aid Chiloé Island; Sweden will help Puerto Saavedra. The U.S. has given most of all. The Export-Import Bank of Washington has lent $10,770,000. Private citizens have donated $5,000,000, and President Eisenhower last week approved a $20 million gift as the "first step" of a broad aid program to Chile's homeless...
...baiting has no ceiling or cellar. The daily Combate is currently charging that the Chilean earthquakes were caused by U.S. underground nuclear explosions. Radio Mambi crows over the U-2 episode: "Any day now, His Majesty Caesar Au gustus Eisenhower I may lose his trousers." In a third-grade Havana classroom last week, when the teacher asked what happened on Feb. 15, 1898. a tiny girl shot back the answer: "The United States blew up the Maine so they could intervene in Cuba." The rest of the "correct" answer: "And most of the crew members were Negroes...
...plain-spoken letter that prompted visiting President Eisenhower to invite him and six of his friends to see the U.S. for themselves, Chilean University Student Patricio Fernández drew a bitter contrast. He compared the failure of the U.S. to finance the economic development of Latin America with "the initiative of the U.S. and its immense sacrifices in Europe-the Marshall Plan." Last week, as the Chileans finished their tour of the U.S., they made it plain that they had come, seen and not been conquered...
JAPANESE PEARL shortage is expected because of $19.5 million worth of damage from tidal waves generated by Chilean earthquakes. High seas destroyed oyster beds, disrupted the three-year growing cycle needed to turn a grain of sand into a pearl...
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...