Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock near the speaker's platform had just struck 3 a.m. when the haggard, dark-eyed figure shuffled into the meeting hall outside Santiago. "Mr. Chairman," he said softly, "I demand the right to answer some personal attacks waged against me." With that, Chile's embattled President Eduardo Frei turned to the 530 members of his Christian Democratic Party's national committee and launched into a plea for his very political life...
...This country," declares Chile's President Eduardo Frei in an apt simile, "is like the worker who was perfectly happy earning only $50 a month. Then his salary doubles, he moves to a better neighborhood, buys new furniture, better clothes, a TV set. Instead of appreciating what he has gained, he begins grumbling and complaining about what he does not have." Last week Frei had as many grounds for grumbling as any of his striving fellow Chileans. His trouble is that he may wake up one day soon and discover that he does not even have a political party...
...into a special Senate by-election two weeks ago, more and more of the country's businessmen and landowners turned on Frei. As an added burden, party leftists once again deserted the President and began attacking a new governmental proposal for a forced-savings program. Designed to stem Chile's growing inflation, the program would grant workers their usual yearly wage increase, but 25% of the raise would go into a savings account. Frei's leftist opposition in and out of the party stridently demanded that the worker get everything at once...
...leaving Frei with only twelve of the Senate's 45 seats. This week Frei hopes to reassert his authority at a two-day party meeting, but beforehand he suggested the possibility of forming a coalition government with leftist parties. Unless he can somehow regain control of his party, Chile's far-left coalition could well sweep into the presidency in the 1970 elections without any need of Frei's Christian Democrats-if the army does not decide to sweep in first to prevent just such a possibility...
...look at a map of South America, Bolivia, sharing borders with Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, occupies a strategic position. In terms of Che's continental revolution, the continuing Bolivian rebellion aims at not only taking power in that country, but also slopping over into the surrounding countries...