Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grants, credits and other aid. The report did not include military assistance, which comes to almost $1 billion. When that is added in, it is enough to make Cuba the hemisphere's biggest recipient of foreign aid at $23 per capita over the five-year period. By contrast, Chile, which boasts the most per capita U.S. aid, got only $17 per person during the same period...
Leverage for a Landslide. In Chile, where 30% of all working women now have professional or university degrees, it was the women's vote that gave Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, 53, his landslide victory over the far left in November's crucial election. Much of Frei's popularity stemmed from the infectious zeal of his late sister Irene, who died in an auto accident five weeks before the election. An ardent campaigner and organizer for the Christian Democrats, Irene won an alderman's seat in Santiago in 1963, picking up the biggest majority of any candidate...
...years since U.S. Army engineers carved the present seaway out of the Panamanian jungle, the canal has proved one of the wonders of the world. Today some 50% of Japan's exports to the West pass through the canal; such South American nations as Ecuador, Peru and Chile depend on it for between 75% and 90% of their total imports and exports. But ships have slowly outgrown the intricate network of three lock systems that carry them across the hump of the isthmus, and trade is expanding far beyond the canal's capacity to handle it. Over...
...Chile has not had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union since 1947, when Communist-led coal miners mounted a small-scale antigovernment insurrection...
Last week Chile's newly inaugurated President Eduardo Frei, 53, decided to forgive, if not forget. In a brief ceremony at Santiago's La Moneda palace, he accepted the credentials of Ambassador Nikolai Alekseev, thus making Chile the sixth Latin American nation to have diplomatic relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides...