Word: videla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists cracked the "popular front" and walked out of Ibáñez' C.T.Ch. to found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick in the bag. We are ready for them...
...turbulent year in office, President Gabriel González Videla has gambled a lot, and always won. Last week, his victories over the Communists behind him, he was ready to gamble again. Just one year after signing the $175,000,000 trade agreement with Juan Perón (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), he sent the treaty to Congress for ratification...
...Entire-group" is diplomatic double-talk for attractive, 20-year-old Lidiya Leisina, U.S.S.R. citizen. Last year she married Alvaro Cruz, son of Chilean Ambassador Luiz Cruz Ocampo. Ten months ago, Ambassador Cruz told President Gonzalez Videla that he was resigning, but he stayed on, trying to get his daughter-in-law out of Russia. Holding to its standard position toward Soviet women married to foreigners (TIME, April 21), Russia refused to let her go. At week's end Russia was still saying no, Lidiya was still in Moscow, Hostage Zhukov still in Santiago...
...fiery President Gabriel González Videla was concerned, the Communists had asked for it. They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
...Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...