Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has so long echoed through the world's major corridors of power was suddenly being taken up last week in, of all places, Latin America-where there has been only one major war in the past 50 years. Ironically, it came from Chile's President Eduardo Frei less than two weeks after his government signed a new $20 million deal for 21 British Hawker
Hunter fighters. Still, Frei had a point
...Frei managed to get almost everything he wanted, and he hopes for quicker passage of the rest of his reforms, which include tighter regulations on commerce and industry, a reorganization of the central bank and a public-administration overhaul...
...FRAP) and the middle-reading Radical Party teamed up to outnumber the Christian Democrats 2 to 1. Smarting from Frei's landslide popularity, the opposition fought at every turn...
View from Abroad. Frei wants his reforms for Chile, but he also wants them for the benefit of Latin America, which increasingly looks to the tall, scholarly visionary as a new leader of the Democratic left and a new force that could help pull the Southern Hemisphere tighter together. Frei is already moving in that direction. He is a staunch booster of economic integration. He was among the first to propose a hemispheric summit conference, now tentatively scheduled for next spring. "We have a commitment in Latin America," Frei says. "This makes us proud and binds...