Word: frei
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Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
...There are a thousand factors," said Frei. Chile is one of the best-educated nations in Latin America, and its voters, with a long tradition of constitutional rule, tend to listen to the issues. There is a rising middle class, weary of inflation and do-nothing government. More essentially, it is Frei himself. Tall and gaunt, he is disarmingly unpretentious, a man who speaks but does not orate. What he says comes across with precision and a sure dedication- and that is apparently what Chileans want. "Few in Chile today," says one diplomat, "can argue with such a clear recognition...
...with the Program. To foreign investors, Frei offers lower taxes and other inducements for expanding production; to the campesino, land reform; to slum dwellers, state-financed housing; to all taxpayers, an overhaul of the federal bureaucracy and a more efficient use of government funds. His plan to "Chileanize" the copper industry is typical of his give and take. Once Congress approves, the government will acquire a 25% interest in two new U.S. copper ventures and buy a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper...
...term of the present Congress runs until May 21, and Frei plans to resubmit some of his programs, hoping that the legislators have got the message. After his own Congress takes over, Frei will face the considerable task of turning his campaign promises into reality. The spirit in which he will go about that effort was evident as he spoke to a singing and cheering crowd of 5,000 people who gathered outside Santiago's La Moneda presidential palace to celebrate his triumph...
...words," said President Frei, "could better sum up the impression of this night than your voices shouting 'Viva Chile! Viva Chile!' We accept this mandate as a great call to responsibility. The party that triumphed is great, but we must never forget that Chile is greater still, and that the government, political parties and men do not exist to serve one government or one man. Rather they exist to serve the country and all Chileans...