Word: videla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, President of Chile, is the leader of a country whose 5½ million people are known as the yanquis of South America-a mildly left-handed compliment to their drive and thoroughness. The U.S. has returned the compliment by giving Chile more financial aid than any other South American government. This week, accompanied by his handsome wife Rosa (nicknamed "Mitty") and daughter Sylvia, 51-year-old President Gonzalez was scheduled to arrive in Washington for a state visit...
...Adeste Videla. During his three weeks in the U.S., Gonzalez will stay with the Trumans at Blair House, visit New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Houston and the TVA. In the course of his tour, Chileans hope that their President, who already enjoys the esteem of U.S. Ambassador Claude Bowers and the State Department, will make strong new friends for their democratic country among the U.S. public and Government...
...bloody clashes with police. But by last week, some 100,000 determined participants in inflation-ridden Chile's first "chain strike" had succeeded in scuttling a government bill ostensibly aimed at freezing wages and prices. They had also forced the resignation of President Gabriel González Videla's 1½-year-old "National Concentration" cabinet...