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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...
...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...
When shrewd, peppery President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla made up his mind last month that Chile must devalue the peso, he knew he would have to blitz his country into going along with him. He promptly set out on a fire-eating tour of the country, in which he made faces at all his political enemies-and scarcely mentioned the peso...
...Chile rates ace-high with the U.S. President Gabriel González Videla's democratic regime appeals to the State Department because it seeks political stability. Its well-conceived, well-prepared blueprints for national resources development make sense to U.S. lending agencies and Point Four planners. Result: since the war the U.S. has lent Chile a total of $86.7 million...
Convalescing after a minor operation, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla got the bulletins at his seaside home in Viña del Mar. An old hand at tackling crises, he ordered his plane made ready for the short flight to the capital, returned to La Moneda on the second day of the rioting...