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Smiling new President Juan Esteban Montero, elected after his friends upset the Ibanez Dictatorship (TIME, Oct. 12), faced an appalling crisis last week, cheerfully declared, ''Courage is the greatest need...
...hours of frantic debate, three Deputies had both eyes blacked shut. A blow from behind stunned Deputy Sigfrido Blasco, son of the late, great Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Several Deputies stood off physical assaults with drawn revolvers, retained just enough sense not to fire. Along about the middle of the struggle, the National Assembly voted 227 to 41 to adopt as Article III of Spain's new Constitution (full text): "No official State religion shall exist...
Juan Esteben Montero, winning candidate and President-elect, had more than the sunshine of U. S. favor to help him win. A Conservative, a former University professor who had played no part in politics until the fall of Dictator Carlos Ibanez seven weeks ago, he was the official candidate of the Government party; and, although Chileans cast the votes, it is the Government that counts the ballots. Moreover Candidate Montero had the picturesque support of nearly 50,000 guasos (cowboys) in flopping ponchos and silver spurs who rode in from the country districts, threatening destruction to anyone who should oppose...
...best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...
...Ibanez kept his head, resigned in favor of Vice President Pedro Opazo Letelier, slipped through deserted streets at dawn into the country and over the border to Argentina...