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...formula," in which Jorge Alessandri, a former Chilean President, would receive full but covert U.S. political help and thereby-if all went well-win the vote in the Chilean Congress. Soon afterward he would agree to resign. A new popular election would be called, in which former President Eduardo Frei, a moderate liberal, would, it was hoped, defeat Allende. Under Chilean law, Frei could not succeed himself, and therefore did not compete in the original vote...
...blood-forming tissues that accounts for approximately half of all juvenile cancer deaths, was invariably fatal before chemotherapy was introduced in 1947. Now at least 25% of all children with the disease can expect to live at least five years. Credited with this achievement were Drs. Emil Frei III of Harvard Medical School, Emil Freireich of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at the University of Texas, James Holland of Roswell Park and Donald Pinkel of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
HODGKIN'S DISEASE is a cancer originating in the lymphatic system. Formerly, most patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease lived less than two years. Drs. Paul Carbone and Vincent DeVita of NCI have kept 70% of their patients alive for at least five years; Frei has achieved an 80% remission rate in patients with the disease. Dr. Isaac Djerassi of Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby, Pa., has found ways to overcome some of the problems inherent in chemotherapy, which can produce toxic reactions, by developing a technique for transfusing platelets (clotting agents) and disease-fighting white blood...
...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...