Word: frei
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...most influential figure to criticize the junta so far is former Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei. In a recent interview published by the Santiago newsweekly Ercilla, Frei complained that the junta's rejection of any sort of economic controls would only lead to monopoly. "This is what is actually happening: a greater concentration of power and wealth...
...Frei and other critics have been careful to limit their statements to the economy, but they contain an implicit political criticism as well. Indeed, secret-police repression has discouraged many foreign governments from helping Chile overcome its economic plight...
...hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone in the clinic saw the card and, apparently just to be helpful, called a Boston policeman and asked, "Did you know that Brezhnev was coming to town...
...seven defendants were arrested when police broke up a demonstration against a B.U. center for Latin American Development Studies conference at which World Bank president Robert S. McNamara and former Chilean president Eduardo Frei were scheduled to appear
...these terms apply only when the cause is a leftist one. "Freedom of speech" is a beautiful ideal, so long as this right is reserved for such groups as the New American Movement and prohibited for others such as the supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free Press (October...