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...tense presidential election campaign. By law, the conservative Alessandri cannot succeed himself. When 2,500,000 Chilean voters go to the polls on Sept. 4, they will choose between two main candidates, both left-of-center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist to be freely elected President. This time -even before the break with Cuba-Allende figured...
...Salvador Allende, 53, the shrewd and persuasive leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP). In 1958 Allende came within 29,000 votes of beating Jorge Alessandri, Chile's dour and conservative incumbent President, who cannot succeed himself. The anti-Communist opposition is stronger this time. But so is Allende. In the past six years, Chile has made little progress. The U.S.-owned mines in Chile produce 11% of the world's copper, but catastrophic 1960 earthquakes and rocketing inflation have eaten up much of the mineral wealth. Since 1958 the price of a loaf of bread...
...which this crew, long on numbers but short on experience, with plenty of horses but not enough trucks and planes, with their share of guts but not too many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence...