Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign. By law, the conservative Alessandri cannot succeed himself. When 2,500,000 Chilean voters go to the polls on Sept. 4, they will choose between two main candidates, both left-of-center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist to be freely elected President. This time -even before the break with Cuba-Allende figured to make...
...Sugar Plums. The Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...
Fight for Democracy. The man with the best chance of stopping Allende is Eduardo Frei, 53, the able and eloquent leader of Chile's fast-growing Christian Democratic Party. Chileans are normally reserved about their politicians. But the tall, gaunt, obviously dedicated Frei has a charisma that sends his audience into wild cheers; when he moves about, crowds surround his car, chanting his name, reaching in the window to shake his hand. His party is only eight years old, and yet it emerged from last year's municipal elections with 23% of the total vote to become Chile...
...Latin New Hampshire. Campaigning as if it were the real thing were the three principal presidential candidates: Julio Durán of the right-wing Democratic Front, the coalition of President Jorge Alessandri (who cannot succeed himself); Salvador Allende of the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front; and Eduardo Frei of the left-of-center Christian Democrats. In 1958 Allende came breathtakingly close to becoming the first avowed far-leftist to be elected President in Latin America. In Curicó, Allende's candidate for Congress won with 39% of the vote. Durán's man got only...
...Frei's party is still weaker than either President Jorge Alessandri's three-party government coalition or the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front, which came within a shade of winning the presidency in 1958. But both the government coalition and the Popular Action Front lost ground in last week's voting, and Frei thinks that they will continue to slip, paving his way to the presidency in 1964. "There are three things working in our favor," says Frei. "First, people are tired of the present political juxtaposition. Second, people don't want a rightist government. Third...