Word: frei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively moderate Radical Party, whose vote dropped from last year's 13% to 8.1%. The conservative National Party's strength dropped sharply to 18.5%. But despite the continuing movement to the left in Chilean politics, the most popular single party in the country remained former President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democrats, who polled 3% more of the vote than President Allende's Socialists...
Other possibilities include Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei; Ceylon's U.N. Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe; former U.N. Ambassador Endalkachew Makonnen of Ethiopia; and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan of Iran, uncle of the Aga Khan and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. When the points are added up, however, it is hard to beat the score of a certain soft-spoken Asian who comes from a small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that...
...case of mining, Allende felt that he needed a constitutional amendment. The "Chileanization" laws that were pushed through by his predecessor, Eduardo Frei, gave the government a 51% share in the copper mines, with options to buy the remaining 49%. There were two stipulations: in some cases the options had to be paid for in cash, not long-term government bonds, and could not be exercised if the mineowners objected. The amendment sweeps away such obstacles. Under it, the government could act unilaterally, and compensation would be whatever...
...many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim of Plunkett's passing: "I'm very happy to see him graduate...
...that effort, Allende appointed a 15-man Cabinet that includes only one Chilean of international stature -Jacques Chonchol, an agronomist who headed Frei's agrarian reform movement but broke with the Christian Democrats because he believed they were moving too slowly on land reform. The new President reserved four Cabinet posts for his own Socialist Party, one more than expected, and gave the better-organized Communists only three. That may indicate that Allende has a healthy wariness of his foremost allies...