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...establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow bureau...
Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
...full minute across an area of 130,000 square miles. At its most severe, it registered 7.5 on the Richter scale (v. 8.5 for the 1960 quake), and for two hours it set seismographs squiggling as far away as central Italy, 7,500 miles to the east. Reports from Santiago told of 200 houses heavily damaged; amazingly, only four people were dead and ten injured. In Valparaiso, Chile's major seaport, close to 30% of the buildings were damaged with 15 persons killed. Throughout the central part of the country, water mains burst, buildings collapsed, and whole towns seemed...
...message. After his own Congress takes over, Frei will face the considerable task of turning his campaign promises into reality. The spirit in which he will go about that effort was evident as he spoke to a singing and cheering crowd of 5,000 people who gathered outside Santiago's La Moneda presidential palace to celebrate his triumph...
There was none of the jostling, banner-waving excitement of a normal Chilean election. The festooning posters that usually blot out Santiago were scarcely in evidence, and even the slogans were muted. That is the way Eduardo Frei, Chile's new Christian Democratic President, wants it. Next week, when 2,920,000 voters choose a full Assembly and half of the Senate, the issue, as Frei somberly puts it, is whether or not they will "make a Parliament for Frei"-in other words, make it possible to carry out the platform on which he was elected last September...