Word: frei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calm last week in the wake of precedent-shattering elections. In a three-way race for the presidency, the Marxist candidate, Dr. Salvador Allende, had received the highest vote, polling 36% v. 35% for his rightist opponent, former President Jorge Alessandri, and 28% for the candidate of President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, Radomiro Tomic. Since no candidate won a popular majority, the Chilean Congress must decide between Allende and Alessandri on Oct. 24. In the meantime, just about everyone in Chile was acting as if Allende had already become the first Marxist head of state ever...
...presidential election of Pedro Aguirre Cerda and was rewarded by being appointed Minister of Health at the age of 31. He has run for the presidency in each of the past four elections dating back to 1952. In 1964 he polled 39% of the vote but lost to Eduardo Frei...
...including a few liberal clergymen. Declared the Rev. Hernan Larrain: "There is no incompatibility between being Catholic and voting for a Marxist." Even so, Allende was opposed by more than 60% of the electorate. In the view of many observers, he owes his victory to the fact that President Frei was not permitted by the constitution to succeed himself...
Chile is an unlikely place for such a scenario. Unlike its Latin neighbors, it has a record of democratic stability and honest elections dating back to 1932. Under President Eduardo Frei, who is prevented by the constitution from seeking a second consecutive six-year term, Chile has made some outstanding progress. In a farsighted reform program, Frei's government has expropriated 1,224 private estates and distributed the land to 30,000 families. It increased income tax revenues 80% by catching wealthy tax dodgers, and has built 400,000 housing units since 1964. In the past few months...
Coalition Speculation. On the center left is Radomiro Tomic, the former ambassador to the U.S., who is the candidate of Frei's Christian Democratic Party. Tomic, the 56-year-old father of nine, has criticized the Frei government's failure to reduce inflation and to move from "Chileanization" (51% ownership) to full nationalization of the copper industry...