Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...
...sending its eight-man mission north is to get $56 million in U.S. commercial debts rescheduled and to arrange for additional loans. The country's past record has made Washington leary. Before any further credit can be considered, the U.S. wants to see a broad program of economic reform in Uruguay. New York banks are of the same mind...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson. "For this," said Frei, "I need support. Great Britain, together with other important sectors of the world, can help by means of its understanding. Only this way can we clear the confusion that exists in some circles over the differences between Communism, revolution and reform." Just so there would be no misunderstandings, Whitehall reminded Frei that Britain stands with the U.S. on the Dominican Republic intervention...
Matter of Faith. At home, Frei faced more immediate problems. Though his Christian Democrats hold a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, he lacks control in the Senate. And last week the balky Senate threatened Frei's whole reform program, including his plan for "Chileanizing" the copper industry by buying into U.S. copper companies. Still, Frei hoped to use the profits of his trip as a lever on the Senate. "The world believes in and hopes for what is happening in Chile," he said last week. "It has faith in our country." It remained to be seen whether...
...focused primarily on the sacraments-including the validity of Anglican baptism. With the Lutherans, discussion centered on how the two faiths interpret the Nicene Creed. Last week's meeting with the Presbyterians was intended primarily to settle on subjects for future talks, ended with the decision to explore reform and renewal within the two bodies. So far, of course, no issues have been resolved. But, adds Bishop Unterkoefler, "a bond of friendship and unity has been created that augurs well for our future meetings...