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...This country," declares Chile's President Eduardo Frei in an apt simile, "is like the worker who was perfectly happy earning only $50 a month. Then his salary doubles, he moves to a better neighborhood, buys new furniture, better clothes, a TV set. Instead of appreciating what he has gained, he begins grumbling and complaining about what he does not have." Last week Frei had as many grounds for grumbling as any of his striving fellow Chileans. His trouble is that he may wake up one day soon and discover that he does not even have a political party...
...government ministers from four of the free world's main copper-exporting countries gathered in the sweltering Zambian capital of Lusaka on June 1, the copper-consuming nations had every reason to worry. The idea, as conceived last fall by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Chilean President Eduardo Frei, was to set up a price-and-quota-fixing copper cartel to control the world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered as the price...
...Santiago, Nixon talked for two hours with Chile's President Eduardo Frei, then moved on to Buenos Aires for backgrounding conferences with government officials, including Argentine President Juan Carlos Ongania. What about Ongania's military government? With some tact, Nixon remarked: "I give him high marks for picking good men and taking their advice. I'd say this country is fortunate in having a man like...
...Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania in Buenos Aires in July...
...past six years, the Latin Americans are beginning to realize that aid alone will not make their problems go away. They are also experiencing a new surge of independence, confident that they can progress without relying quite so heavily on U.S. aid. Said Chile's President, Eduardo Frei: "Our people know that they are poor in a rich continent." Added Mexico's Diaz Ordaz: "It is our effort, our imagination and our resources that must carry out the task of economic integration...