Word: chiles
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...Felipe Herrera, 49, a Chilean economist, head of the Inter-American Development Bank for eleven years, now a professor at the University of Chile. Because Chile's leftist government endorsed Herrera, the U.S. took the unusual step of publicly stating that he was unacceptable...
...motorcade wound through the dusty town of Maria Elena in Chile's mountainous north, the Cuban Premier spied a gymnasium housing a basketball court. He ordered the caravan to a screeching halt, recruited a government official, three carabineros and five Chil ean newsmen, then sprang onto the court - combat boots, green fatigues and all - for a pickup game...
Santiago's middle-roading daily La Prensa ahemmed: "Chile, one is accustomed to men dancing with women...
Excessive Speechifying. On his first trip to South America in twelve years, Castro followed a two-week itinerary that took him north through Chile's bleak mining country, then south for tours of factories and talks with stu dents, and finally for a cruise on a destroyer with his host, Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens...
...times, Fidel was more like a touring inspector general than a visiting head of government. Obviously well-coached about the problems that Allende's government is having with falling production, rising absenteeism and soaring wage demands at Chile's newly nationalized mines, Castro vigorously railed against troublemaking "demagogues" and "reactionaries" during a speech at a mine in Pedro de Valdivia. At Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper operation, he launched into a lecture on productivity. He thundered that "a hundred tons less per day means a loss of $36 mil lion a year...