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Fight for Democracy. The man with the best chance of stopping Allende is Eduardo Frei, 53, the able and eloquent leader of Chile's fast-growing Christian Democratic Party. Chileans are normally reserved about their politicians. But the tall, gaunt, obviously dedicated Frei has a charisma that sends his audience into wild cheers; when he moves about, crowds surround his car, chanting his name, reaching in the window to shake his hand. His party is only eight years old, and yet it emerged from last year's municipal elections with 23% of the total vote to become Chile...
...Latin New Hampshire. Campaigning as if it were the real thing were the three principal presidential candidates: Julio Durán of the right-wing Democratic Front, the coalition of President Jorge Alessandri (who cannot succeed himself); Salvador Allende of the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front; and Eduardo Frei of the left-of-center Christian Democrats. In 1958 Allende came breathtakingly close to becoming the first avowed far-leftist to be elected President in Latin America. In Curicó, Allende's candidate for Congress won with 39% of the vote. Durán's man got only...
...Eduardo Frei, 53, a widely respected Senator and professor of labor law at Santiago's Catholic University, the Christian Democrats ran their first presidential candidate in 1958; in 1961's congressional elections they polled 15% of the vote. They argue for an independent but Western-oriented foreign policy, demand thoroughgoing economic and social reform at home. In last week's election they drew strength from conservatives disheartened by Chile's continuing economic crisis (living costs went up almost 40% in the last 15 months), and from non-Communist liberals fed up with the far left...
...Frei's party is still weaker than either President Jorge Alessandri's three-party government coalition or the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front, which came within a shade of winning the presidency in 1958. But both the government coalition and the Popular Action Front lost ground in last week's voting, and Frei thinks that they will continue to slip, paving his way to the presidency in 1964. "There are three things working in our favor," says Frei. "First, people are tired of the present political juxtaposition. Second, people don't want a rightist government. Third...
...accpeccator (simultaneously righteous and sinful). He is still besieged by evil and capable of sin himself, but he also knows that Christ has already conquered the forces of darkness, and that in St. Paul's words "death hath no more dominion over him." Says Yale's Theologian Frei: "What emerges from