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More than Sermons. Perhaps the most outspoken advocate of social change and reform among Latin American prelates is Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, 55, Archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile. A square-jawed intellectual, Cardinal Silva Henriquez collects pottery and rare books, tries to discourage visitors from kneeling to kiss his ring. Soon after his elevation to Cardinal last year, he issued three pastoral letters calling for broad land reform, public housing and school construction programs...
...acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives in the barest of shacks in the worst of Santiago's slums, where 180,000 people live, and who by sharing the lot of the poor has made .the church's presence felt in a community that is ordinarily left to the Communists...
...Originally 59, but one tourist died in Santiago during a predawn swim, apparently of a heart attack...
...Alliance for Progress got off to a disappointing start, and has never lacked critics to advertise the fact. Last week from all sides came a fresh flurry of criticism and thoughts on how to set it right. At a press conference in Santiago, Chile, where he was on a state visit, Brazil's President Joao Goulart said that the Alliance "fulfills neither the objectives nor the high hopes raised when it was formulated two years ago." Goulart, whose country is the program's biggest beneficiary, called for a "cool and calm" reappraisal aimed at "remodeling" the Alliance...
...Eduardo Frei, 53, a widely respected Senator and professor of labor law at Santiago's Catholic University, the Christian Democrats ran their first presidential candidate in 1958; in 1961's congressional elections they polled 15% of the vote. They argue for an independent but Western-oriented foreign policy, demand thoroughgoing economic and social reform at home. In last week's election they drew strength from conservatives disheartened by Chile's continuing economic crisis (living costs went up almost 40% in the last 15 months), and from non-Communist liberals fed up with the far left...