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...mass picketing, no bloody clashes with police. But by last week, some 100,000 determined participants in inflation-ridden Chile's first "chain strike" had succeeded in scuttling a government bill ostensibly aimed at freezing wages and prices. They had also forced the resignation of President Gabriel González Videla's 1½-year-old "National Concentration" cabinet...
...crisis had begun when white-collar workers of swarthy Edgardo Maass's Chilean Federation of Private Employees (CEPCH) struck telephone and electriclight companies (TIME, Feb. 6). President González declared the strike illegal and moved in troops; Maass threatened a general strike. González stood firm. On Tuesday, bank employees walked out. Next day, they went back to work, but white-collar workers in quasi-governmental institutions struck. On Thursday, the bank clerks went out again, joined this time by bus drivers and workers of 30 other private industries...
...three daughters. The middle one, Angelita, was a willowy, dark-eyed 19, in hauteur and horsemanship a chip off the old pine. She always appeared at the Sunday afternoon parties, and there, about a year ago, she met Luis Miguel González, peasant-born, who is called Dominguín and is one of Spain's most highly regarded matadors. It was love at first sight...
...million Export-Import Bank credit. It would tide the Chileans over the slump in copper prices that knocked a hole in the government's expected revenues for 1949. Moreover, by making money available to pay for U.S. heavy equipment and materials, it would enable González to go forward with his program of economic development...
...further sign of high U.S. regard for Chile, Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller Jr. was under orders to go to Santiago soon and extend President Truman's invitation to Gabriel González to visit Washington next year...