The World - News from Nov. 21, 1988
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A Cabinet minister said that Chile’s military leader, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, will not be a candidate in a presidential election stemming from his defeat in a popular vote. Voters in that Oct. 5 plebiscite rejected Pinochet’s request for another eight-year presidential term, meaning he must leave office in March, 1990. An election for a new president has been scheduled for December, 1989. Interior Minister Carlos Caceres told the newspaper El Mercurio that Pinochet, 72, will not be a candidate and that Chile is seeing the “final chapter” of the Pinochet presidency.
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