Word: saenz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Ingari 8:00; 2. Nick Saenz...
...inhabitants are Mexican-Americans who scrape together a living as stoop laborers during the melon-picking season. Yet in the past two or three years, brick houses worth as much as $75,000 have sprung up among the pink and green shanties that line Route 83 between Roma-Los Saenz and Rio Grande City. Outside some of them sit new refrigerators still in their shipping cartons...
...last week the generals were swinging the economy toward a rigidly conservative course. To carry out its program, the junta has appointed three right-leaning foes of Allende: Raul Saez, who was made special adviser for overall economic planning; Fernando Leniz, who became Economics Minister; and Orlando Saenz, adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Saez, 60, is an engineer turned economic consultant who has a reputation for hard work and cold-blooded toughness. Leniz, 46, a feline figure who was publisher of El Mercuric, a conservative Santiago newspaper, is a shrewd businessman. Saenz, 38, who resembles Henry Kissinger, is a former director of a private economic-development group. "Chile," he says, "will have to sacrifice to save itself...
...Though Saenz has given the highest priority to reopening Chile to foreign investors-he held at least 120 meetings with businessmen during recent visits to the U.S. and Canada-he stresses that the government will maintain tight control of its industry. Copper is, of course, Chile's chief source of foreign income. Under Allende's highly political management of the mines, which he seized from such U.S. firms as Kennecott and Anaconda, disastrous strikes badly hurt production. The government will continue to own the mines, but it is willing to negotiate at least partial restitution...