Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrill May Day speech, Castro called the U.S. landing "one of the most criminal and humiliating actions of this century." The comment from the rest of Latin America was surprisingly mild. Few of the expected mobs materialized to hurl rocks at U.S. embassies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei and Venezuela's Raúl Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico's Foreign Ministry said that it regretted a move "which evokes such painful memories...
...Rebuild. President Frei ordered army units into stricken areas with bulldozers, food and clothes. A tent village sprang up outside El Cobre, and the afternoon after the quake Frei himself arrived. "This is terrible, terrible," he repeated. "Señor Presidente, help us," pleaded one miner. "That is why I am here," said Frei, "to be with you." Army engineers dug for bodies, found...
...week's end the country's death toll was approaching 300. Some 18,000 people were homeless, and the total damage was estimated at between $50 million and $100 million. With his ministers, Frei mapped out relief and reconstruction programs, ordered an inquiry to determine whether the mining company or government inspectors were guilty of negligence in permitting the miners to live at the base of the El Cobre...
...bigger question was what effect the quake would have on Frei's urgently needed reform program in the areas of land, housing, school and industrial development. In new elections last month, Frei's Christian Democrats won an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and planned a full-scale assault on Chile's ills. They still plan to proceed despite the added burden of digging out from the earthquake...
President Johnson immediately offered U.S. assistance, and Frei responded with a request for "flour, condensed milk for children, and vehicles to transport water." Yet Chile's President did not ask-or expect-a massive infusion of emergency funds. He intends to float a special bond issue at home to finance reconstruction, thus leaving the $1 billion national budget intact. "We cannot appeal to the world every four years to help us lift ourselves from the ground," he said. "We Chileans ourselves will raise the towns that were destroyed...