Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely had a Chilean President taken office amid such great expectations. "The whole atmosphere reflected the same spirit as F.D.R.'s first hundred days," said a Western ambassador, recalling the Nov. 3 inauguration of Eduardo Frei as Chile's 36th President...
...this week, 90 of those 100 days will have slipped away, and the excitement has died aborning. For all the high hopes, Frei has not even been able to make a start on his program to save Chile from inflation and all the other ills that plague a developing Latin American nation...
Zero for Three. While he received the greatest endorsement ever given a Chilean President (55% of the vote), Frei faced a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats held only 33 of 192 seats. With new elections coming up March 7, the Congressmen have been arguing and doodling away their time, have refused even to hear government ministers in defense of some key bills...
...editor of this anthology concludes his arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men might aspire... Die Gedanken sind frei." Later in the book Dan Wakefield notes, "It has been reported that a pound of LSD dropped into a city's water supply could produce a psychosis of the population that would last long enough for enemy troops to take over...
Leverage for a Landslide. In Chile, where 30% of all working women now have professional or university degrees, it was the women's vote that gave Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, 53, his landslide victory over the far left in November's crucial election. Much of Frei's popularity stemmed from the infectious zeal of his late sister Irene, who died in an auto accident five weeks before the election. An ardent campaigner and organizer for the Christian Democrats, Irene won an alderman's seat in Santiago in 1963, picking up the biggest majority of any candidate...