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...Chile's imaginative new President Eduardo Frei may not be able to get a single key bill through his lame-duck Congress, but he has certainly stirred the country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete...
Rarely had a Chilean President taken office amid such great expectations. "The whole atmosphere reflected the same spirit as F.D.R.'s first hundred days," said a Western ambassador, recalling the Nov. 3 inauguration of Eduardo Frei as Chile's 36th President...
...this week, 90 of those 100 days will have slipped away, and the excitement has died aborning. For all the high hopes, Frei has not even been able to make a start on his program to save Chile from inflation and all the other ills that plague a developing Latin American nation...
...largest open-pit copper mine (TIME, Jan. 1). Nationalists and leftists in Congress are not likely to act on that presidential idea either. They accuse Frei of selling out to the Yanquis, and clamor for outright nationalization of the nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. copper interests in Chile...
...spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year and is trying to teach its Indian population to like sugar. Chile now saves $20 million annually by refining domestic sugar beets, has also fattened its cattle industry by feeding livestock the refinery residue...