Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months ago Chilean President Eduardo Frei called on his fellow Latin American heads of state and President Johnson to get together later this year and discuss economic integration and other regional problems of the hemisphere. The response was overwhelmingly in favor, and only the time and place remained to be set. Last week, in a small warmup to the bigger meeting, President Frei flew off to Bogotá for a threeday, five-nation "Andean summit...
Whether the government would ever get around to the cleanup Frei wanted was anybody's guess. In any case, admitted the Interior Ministry, prostitution cannot be ended overnight...
Chile's President Eduardo Frei is a Christian Democrat who came to office on a platform of sweeping social reform. He has turned out to be a reformer, all right, but of a kind that Chilenos had not quite expected. Seven months ago, he put a crimp in the national afternoon siesta by banning the three-hour lunch break. Then came a prohibition of movies after midnight and the closing of television stations at 11:45 p.m. "A nation that goes to bed late cannot work well the next day," the government explained...
Last month came a ruling that threatened another aspect of bedtime life in Chile. Amid charges of white slavery and dope peddling, Frei's Interior Ministry suddenly banned prostitution and told owners of nightclubs to take the beds out of the back rooms. This was going too far. No sooner had the order been issued than the madams of Santiago descended on the presidential palace in a mass-protest demonstration. They informed Under Secretary of the Interior Juan Hamilton that unless the ban was removed, they would organize into a sort of body politic to oppose the government...
Soronen's wife sued the inn and James Frei, the bartender who served her husband, charging that they had negligently caused her husband's death by selling him whisky when he was visibly drunk. The defendants denied responsibility, claiming that Soronen was not "a visibly intoxicated person" when he entered the Olde Milford Inn-an observation that was supported by the testimony of several patrons. But what if Soronen was drunk? the defendants went on. That would have made his accidental death the result of his own "contributory negligence." In either case, Frei and the tavern argued, they...