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Anaconda, largest of the two U.S. companies that together own 96% of Chile's mines, announced a 30% cutback, laid off 2,615 workers. Higher-cost Chilean-owned mines had already shut down or soon would. That would add several thousand more to the unemployment rolls. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the price drop brought cries from copper-state Congressmen for revival of the prewar tariff on U.S. copper imports. If it were reimposed, Chile would be shut from any big share of the U.S. market...
Died. Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, 80, onetime Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. (1926-27, 1931-32) and Foreign Minister (1932-37); after long illness; in Santiago, Chile. Cruchaga earned the nickname "Don Palomo" (Mr. Dove) for his peace efforts (he helped settle the Chaco War in 1935, arranged the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican after the religious persecutions of the late...
...Flushing Meadow the Chilean delegate rose last week in the U.N. Assembly session to take up a family tragedy. For 28 months, said Hernan Santa Cruz, young Alvaro Cruz, son of a former Chilean ambassador at Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral...
...Assembly voted 39 to 6 that the Russian ban was "likely to impair the friendly relations among nations," and should be withdrawn. Poland's Jan Drohojowski, who voted against the motion, thought the Assembly had yielded to U.S. and Chilean "political acrobatics." The Assembly has been misled, he snapped, "by a feeling of sympathy for the young people, now that spring is here...
...mountain-minded man like William D. Hackett, Aconcagua, the 22,835-ft. peak which straddles the Argentine-Chilean border, was an irresistible challenge. Hackett had started climbing at twelve in the Olympic Range near Bremerton, Wash., had served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut. Hackett joined a scientific expedition that scaled Alaska's Mt. McKinley. Last month 30-year-old Bill Hackett got a 45-day leave from his post at Fort Benning, Ga., and set his sights for Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest peak...