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Before last week's congressional elections in Chile, two candidates in the staunchly conservative lake district did not even bother to campaign. They were Christian Democrats and sure to lose. They won. Three party stalwarts offered their names only to fill out the ballot. They were going to Moscow, Bonn and Bern as ambassadors. They won. In fact, practically anyone could have won in Chile last week- if he ran under the banner of Chile's Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei "This," said Frei, "has been a veritable earthquake...
...results were more than a surprise victory for Frei. They meant a change in the whole political map of Chile. After last September's presidential elections, the country's radicals, conservatives and liberals claimed that only their support put Frei over the top as President. Last week Frei exploded that myth once and for all, cutting their combined legislative seats from...
...There are a thousand factors," said Frei. Chile is one of the best-educated nations in Latin America, and its voters, with a long tradition of constitutional rule, tend to listen to the issues. There is a rising middle class, weary of inflation and do-nothing government. More essentially, it is Frei himself. Tall and gaunt, he is disarmingly unpretentious, a man who speaks but does not orate. What he says comes across with precision and a sure dedication- and that is apparently what Chileans want. "Few in Chile today," says one diplomat, "can argue with such a clear recognition...
...words," said President Frei, "could better sum up the impression of this night than your voices shouting 'Viva Chile! Viva Chile!' We accept this mandate as a great call to responsibility. The party that triumphed is great, but we must never forget that Chile is greater still, and that the government, political parties and men do not exist to serve one government or one man. Rather they exist to serve the country and all Chileans...
...CHILE is the most European of the west-coast countries, honors-of all people-Bernardo O'Higgins as its first President, and has a long history of constitutional government. Nevertheless, the country's 8,200,000 people, 66% of them part Indian, have never been able to feed themselves; their country, for all the lush wheat-and wine-growing valleys, is still mostly desert and mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with...