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...worst thing that happened to Charles de Gaulle last week was that an aide dropped a briefcase full of papers into the water as he hopped from a launch onto the quay at Valparaiso, Chile. It hardly mattered. After 14 days of his 27-day Latin American trip, De Gaulle had it all down pat, and was moving at what the French call vitesse de croisière, comfortable cruising speed...
...with him, and he was feeling so well that he complained about one day's schedule not being full enough. Seasoned De Gaullologists were startled to see him hugely enjoying a colorfully costumed Bolivian "devil dance," despite his dis dain for things folkloric. They were stunned when in Chile he actually responded with a big wave to photographers' shouts for just one more...
...once did De Gaulle mention the U.S. by name, but his meaning was clear. "Let the powers who have appropriate means bring their contribution to the development of those less privileged, without any interference whatsoever in anybody's affairs," said De Gaulle in Bolivia. He repeated it in Chile, after a restful two-clay sea voyage down the long coast to Valparaiso. From Chile, De Gaulle's Caravelle jet swept on across the Andes to Argentina and the seventh stop on his ten-nation tour. In Buenos Aires, internal politics reared its head when followers of ex-Dictator...
...Chile & Beyond. The earliest ancestors of today's Christian Democrats turned up in Uruguay in 1910, and over the years other parties sprouted-first in Chile, then Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and on throughout Latin America. In 1947 party delegates met in Montevideo to form a hemisphere-wide confederation. Three years ago, in Santiago, the European and Latin American branches formally joined forces in a Christian Democratic World Union...
...stronghold of Latin America's Christian Democrats is, of course, Chile, where the party has soared from 3.4% of the vote in 1941 to 56% in Frei's election. How much of this was due to Christian Democracy itself, and how much to Frei's charismatic personality, will not be clear until congressional elections next March. Right now, the party has only 27 members in Congress, 70 short of a majority...