Word: frei
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Chile's able President Eduardo Frei has one of the most ambitious and soundly reasoned development programs in LatinAmerica−if he can ever get started. Nature seems to be conspiring against him. Last March, after only five months in office, Frei faced a major rebuilding program when an earthquake ravaged central Chile, killing 210 people, leaving some 18,000 homeless, and causing damage amounting to $80 million. Last week a saddened Frei again toured disaster-strewn streets, taking the measure of the worst winter in modern memory...
...midweek the sun finally broke through the clouds over Santiago, and the worst seemed over at last. President Frei gratefully acknowledged emergency aid from the U.S. and other countries, and already a bootstrap effort had begun. All over Santiago last week, boy scouts and students were collecting money and clothing; the tags they wore on their coats read: "Together we shall rebuild Chile...
...quietly going their own way. In Venezuela and Peru, they are participating without fanfare in government information programs; in Colombia, one is helping pre pare films and slides for family planning. And in Brazil, some even dispense birth-control devices to peasants. Last November, Chile's President Eduardo Frei launched a massive birth-control campaign in Santiago's squalid shanty towns, setting up a dozen clinics to distribute contraceptive pills. In December, Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry set up a "Center for the Study of Population and Development" to analyze the country's population problems...
After three sessions with De Gaulle, Frei flew on to London, where he dined with Queen Elizabeth and described his "revolution in liberty" to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. "For this," said Frei, "I need support. Great Britain, together with other important sectors of the world, can help by means of its understanding. Only this way can we clear the confusion that exists in some circles over the differences between Communism, revolution and reform." Just so there would be no misunderstandings, Whitehall reminded Frei that Britain stands with the U.S. on the Dominican Republic intervention...
Matter of Faith. At home, Frei faced more immediate problems. Though his Christian Democrats hold a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, he lacks control in the Senate. And last week the balky Senate threatened Frei's whole reform program, including his plan for "Chileanizing" the copper industry by buying into U.S. copper companies. Still, Frei hoped to use the profits of his trip as a lever on the Senate. "The world believes in and hopes for what is happening in Chile," he said last week. "It has faith in our country." It remained to be seen whether...