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Shortly before Chile's presidential elections last week, Salvador Allende, the Marxist candidate, received a "good luck" telegram from Joāo Goulart, the recently deposed far-leftist President of Brazil. That kind of luck was not what Allende needed. In a striking manifestation of democracy, Chile's voters overwhelmingly rejected Allende, rejected all the talk of Cuban-styled socialism, rejected all the Communists and leftists who supported him. By a vote of about 1,400,000 to 970,000, or 56%, they elected Eduardo Frei, 53, the tall, eloquent Christian Democrat, to be their President...
Promise of Revolution. It was supposed to be a close election. The campaign started almost two years ago, and grew louder with each passing month. Having come within 29,000 votes of beating incumbent President Jorge Allessandri in 1958, the demagogic Allende blitzed Chile's poor and unemployed with grand promises of "revolution within the law." "From the south to the north," he cried last week at a rally in Santiago, "there is a rebel attitude that will win our destiny." "And now," shrilled a Communist leader grabbing the microphone, "Cuba will not be alone...
...Frei will become the first Christian Democrat ever to be elected a President in Latin America. Eight years ago, when he founded his party, Frei's Christian Democrats commanded less than 7% of the national vote; last week they won an absolute majority. "This is a victory for Chile," sighed an exhausted Frei. "I want to say that I,will be President for all Chilenos, not just those who voted...
...owned copper mines producing 11% of the world's copper. "We will bring the defeat forever of the oligarchy with a revolution within the law," he cries. Allende vaguely guarantees work and education for all, "massive" housing programs, and medical care for each and every worker. "Chile," he insists, "is a nation quite capable of sound development. But we are strangled by U.S. imperialism...
...Eduardo Frei raises no such phantoms. The real danger, he believes, is the Communists, who will inevitably grab power if Allende is elected. His campaign is based on a well-reasoned program of land reform, more manufacturing industries, more technical schools, slum redevelopment, and stronger government regulation of Chile's mining industries. But he is not for nationalization, and he is not dispensing sugarplum visions to Chileans. "I'm not going to promise you miracles," he tells them. "What I do offer is constancy. I am with...