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...what Allende needed. In a striking manifestation of democracy, Chile's voters overwhelmingly rejected Allende, rejected all the talk of Cuban-styled socialism, rejected all the Communists and leftists who supported him. By a vote of about 1,400,000 to 970,000, or 56%, they elected Eduardo Frei, 53, the tall, eloquent Christian Democrat, to be their President for the next six years...
...Frei offered no revolutions. The tall, hawk-nosed Senator said he would work for slum redevelopment, tighter regulation of the U.S.-owned copper mines, more diversified industry, land reform -but all within a pro-West, democratic framework. "There is no need to regiment the life of the nation under the iron fist of dictatorship," he said last week. "Much less do we need an ideology that is deeply split between Moscow and Peking...
...election day drew near, most observers favored Frei, expecting him to win by 100,000 to 200,000 votes. Allende's supporters loudly insisted that their man would be elected, promised mass demonstrations "to proclaim our victory." Fearing that the demonstrations might turn into full-scale riots, the government sent troops to guard every polling place...
...campaign. By law, the conservative Alessandri cannot succeed himself. When 2,500,000 Chilean voters go to the polls on Sept. 4, they will choose between two main candidates, both left-of-center: Salvador Allende, 56, rasping, demagogic leader of the far-left Popular Action Front (FRAP), and Eduardo Frei, 53, the forceful, hawk-nosed head of the Christian Democratic Party. In the 1958 elections, Allende came within a hairbreadth 29,000 votes of becoming the Hemisphere's first avowed Marxist to be freely elected President. This time -even before the break with Cuba-Allende figured to make...
...Sugar Plums. The Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...