Word: frei
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Municipal elections ordinarily carry little political importance in Chile, but President Eduardo Frei chose to lift last week's to the status of a national plebiscite. "It will be an opportunity," he said, "for the nation to say whether it is with the opposition or with the President it elected to carry out institutional reforms." Chileans took the opportunity, all right, but the results were not what Frei and just about everyone else had expected. While each of Chile's six other parties made substantial gains at the polls, Frei's Christian Democrats lost ground...
Miscalculation has become a mark of the three-year administration of Frei, 56, a former Santiago University law professor. When he swept to a landslide victory over a Marxist candidate in 1964, Frei seemed an ideal choice. An antiCommunist and a knowledgeable friend of the U.S., he professed that his aim was to transform Chile into a modern society without too much turmoil, to conduct what he called "a revolution in liberty...
Self-Righteous Zeal. Frei proved to be a dedicated reformer but a poor politician. In proceeding with his revolution, he managed to offend just about everyone. The Communists attacked his land-reform program because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes...
...neighboring Chile, where President Eduardo Frei dealt the Communist Party its biggest election defeat in Chilean history, Russia has let bygones be bygones, last January signed $57 million worth of credit and technical-assistance agreements with Frei's government. Last week, as the two countries were putting the final touches to a cultural-exchange pact, Frei was considering a state visit to Moscow. And in Venezuela, Russia has been quietly pushing its desire for trade and some type of diplomatic relations. A few weeks ago, Russia's amiable Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin, dropped into Venezuela...
...week's end Frei refused to cancel the Washington trip; instead, he returned his original travel request to the Chamber of Deputies, where a majority vote would send it on to the Senate for a second try. By then, Frei hopes to persuade the opposition to reconsider. As part of the pressure he is applying, Frei sent to Congress a bill that would empower the President to dissolve Congress once during his six-year term and call new elections...