Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiery President Gabriel González Videla was concerned, the Communists had asked for it. They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
Possibly the new Commie strikes might lead to outlawing of the party and the ousting of Communists from Congress. That had been González plan of several weeks ago. But not all Chileans wanted to be as tough as their volatile President. The Socialists, in Chile no friends of Communists, opposed outlawing the party, as a blow to civil liberties. Pink-cheeked old Senate President Arturo Alessandri, a Liberal, twice Chile's President and still a great power in politics, let it be known that he was against the idea...
...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
...Chile, which first raised the anti-Red cry last fortnight by packing two conniving Yugoslav diplomats out of the country, was reported to be ready to follow...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...