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...main reason for the increasing cure rate is the success of multidisciplinary techniques or combinations of treatments," Emil Frei, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said yesterday...
...Frei noted that cosmetic treatment meant to improve the quality of the patient's life after treatment has gained in importance. Instead of amputation of a 15-year-old's leg, for example, doctors now will isolate only the part of the bone affected by cancer and treat it with radiotherapy...
...imprisoned. There were no voter registration lists. If a person left his or her ballot blank, it was counted as a pro-government vote. Finally, all votes were counted by The Junta in secret with no independent observers allowed. This so-called election was severely criticized by Eduardo Frei, former Chilean president, the Chilean Catholic Church, Sen. Edward Kennedy, and by 40 U.S. congressmen led by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Nevertheless, it was not surprising that The Junta's constitution obtained 67 per cent of the votes...
Three years ago, World Bank President Robert S. McNamara asked Brandt to head a private study on the unsettled and potentially explosive relations between industrialized and developing countries. Joining Brandt were 17 other luminaries, including such former heads of government as Chile's Eduardo Frei, Britain's Edward Heath and Sweden's Olof Palme. Americans on the Brandt commission were Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., and Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Wall Street investment bank of Lehman
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE Arnold Harberger loves in Chile. He married a Chilean. By his count, 100 to 150 of his students are economists there. He consulted for the Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...