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...Three party stalwarts offered their names only to fill out the ballot. They were going to Moscow, Bonn and Bern as ambassadors. They won. In fact, practically anyone could have won in Chile last week- if he ran under the banner of Chile's Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei "This," said Frei, "has been a veritable earthquake...
Down with the Ducks. For Frei (rhymes with day), the elections were do or die in the truest sense. In his presidential campaign last summer against Communist-backed Salvador Allende, Frei promised voters a long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage...
...them part Indian, have never been able to feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with three U.S. companies to double copper production by 1970. Frei has suffered from a hostile lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats controlled only 33 of 192 seats. "Chile," he says, "cannot wait indefinitely." And this week he went into...
Chile's two conservative parties, which largely supported him during the presidential elections, now attack Frei's program chiefly because of its proposals for higher taxes, a state bank and land reform. The three moderately leftist parties resent Frei's plans because he has stolen their social-reform thunder. On the extreme fringes, the Communists and Socialists denounce everything, particularly the copper plan, which they rail at as a mere ruse to allow foreigners to exploit Chile's riches...
Hoping to Lead. In his calm, professorial, yet somehow messianic manner, Frei has gone over all the programs once more during the election campaign. He has held rallies up and down the 2,600-mile length of his country and spoken time after time over radio and TV. Though his Christian Democrats face the vote-splitting opposition of eleven other parties, they are still expected to win 56 to 60 Assembly seats and pick up two Senate seats for a total of eleven...