Chile: Owner of the Future When the Chilean Congress unanimously passed a constitutional amendment last week nationalizing the copper mines, the whole country went on an emotional tear. Newspapers, billboards and walls blossomed with the slogan:
"Chile has put on its long pants! Finally the copper is ours."
President Salvador Allende pro claimed a Day of National Dignity and declared: "Now we will be the owners of our own future, truly the masters of our destiny." Chileans confidently predicted that under state management copper pro duction will jump to 840,000 tons this year, compared with 640,000 tons...
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