Word: frei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania in Buenos Aires in July...
...Este summit conference last week was Jerry Hannifin, Latin America specialist in our Washington bureau. Hannifin, along with White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey and a team of other TIME reporters and photographers, was covering the inter-American gathering at Uruguay's seaside playground, a gathering described by President Frei of Chile as "the most important in hemisphere history...
...past six years, the Latin Americans are beginning to realize that aid alone will not make their problems go away. They are also experiencing a new surge of independence, confident that they can progress without relying quite so heavily on U.S. aid. Said Chile's President, Eduardo Frei: "Our people know that they are poor in a rich continent." Added Mexico's Diaz Ordaz: "It is our effort, our imagination and our resources that must carry out the task of economic integration...
...Frei compounded his problems by refusing to compromise or soften his reforms and by pushing his programs with such self-righteous zeal that he often offended even would-be supporters. He started a running feud with the opposition-controlled Senate, which last month even denied him permission to travel to the U.S. on a state visit and allowed him to fly to Punta del Este this week only as a gesture of national pride. It was largely to show the Senate who was boss that Frei put such emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes...
Died. Emil Frei Jr., 71, one of the foremost U.S. artists in stained glass, who took over his father's glass firm to promote a revival of an art that had waned since its flowering in the Middle Ages, combining richly colored abstract forms and contemporary symbolism, thus creating effects no other medium can achieve; after a long heart illness; in Kirkwood...