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...junta, led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, was to destroy the base for a possible counter-coup by the left. Judging by military announcements, the task was proving successful-and at surprisingly low cost in human lives. The junta insisted that only 95 people had been killed in the two days of fighting before the army took control of Santiago. Other sources, however, estimated deaths...
...said General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the stern, ruddy-faced leader of Chile's military junta, in an hour-long interview last week with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, which took place in Pinochet's Defense Ministry office overlooking the gutted Moneda Palace. Pinochet was vague about the junta's timetable for a restoration of civilian government. "We will keep the status quo for a certain time, and then grant more liberty. But we don't want politics. The only party now is the Chilean party, and its members are all Chileans...
...hope the army will not have to come out, because if it does, it will be to kill." When General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte issued that grim warning in 1971, it sent shock waves across Chile...
...general, who was then commander of the Santiago garrison, had been asked by President Allende to help quell disorders in the province, and Chileans were not used to hearing threats from their generals. After a brief state of emergency the situation was resolved without bloodshed, and Pinochet went back to his barracks. But not, as it turned out, to stay. Named commander in chief of the army only three weeks ago, the powerfully built infantry officer, 57, last week presided over the coup as head of a four-man military junta...
...Chilean military−notably the navy−has a reputation for maintaining stern, even brutal discipline. That may not bode too well for the immediate future, since General Pinochet is a tough and energetic commander, as well as a stickler for army regulations. Born in Valparaiso−Allende's home town−Pinochet (pronounced pee-no-chet) entered the army's military academy at the age of 18. He has been to the U.S. Southern Command in the Panama Canal Zone several times, and in 1956 served as military attache to the Chilean embassy in Washington. Although...