HlD-AUGUST. GENERAL GUSTAVO LEIGH. AIROF THE JUNTA,HE HAS PRESSINGUICKOF THE EVIDENCETHE DETAINED OFFICIALS OF THE FORMER POPULAR UNITY LE1SH BELIEVES THAT. LEADERS. THEHfe IS MOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO MARRENT A TRIAL. RELEASED AND Ex ILEO FROM CHIlE as SOON A$ POSSIBLE.
LEIGH SAID THAT ADMIRALAV"THE JUNTA. IS IN ACCORD MtTMVE SUGGESTION.AMOUSTfl PINOCHET IS ST ILL UNDECIDED and.
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ACCORDING TO LEIGH, PINOCHET IS BEING PRESSED flME ARMY
GENERALS TO REJECT LEIGH'S PROPOSAL. GENERAL CESAR
2 A* CARABINEROOP THE JUNTA, ALSO HAS NOT
SINCE PlNOCHETtS APPOINTMENT
COMMITTED HIMSEL" ON TH= PROPOSAL.
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CHIEF OPRELATIONS SfcT-'EeN PINOCHET ON THE ONE HAND AND Ks^lNU HE cThER HAVE 9ECOME SLIGHTLY STRAINED. AS EXAMPLES HE SCSM? PRESS INTERVIEW IV. HMJCHAID THAT HE HAOPLANNING THEORHER PRESIDENT ENDS EAR PRIOR TOEPTEMBERCOUP D'ETAT, 'LEIGH AND MERINO CONFRONTED PINOCHETHE STATEMENT AND SAID THAT TO THEIR KNOWLEDGE HISNO PARTICIPATION DID NOTjNTIL JUST PSIOHOVE.TO LEIGH, PINOCHET WASERNED WITH THE CRITICISHJ ANDHAT .IN THE PUTuRE HECLEAR SIMILAR PRESS RELEASES WITH THE OTHER JUNTA I XfelSH SAID THAT He' AND MERINO' NEfig ALSO OPPOSED TO PINOCHET'STH= COHPTROLLS" GENERAL. PINOCHET TOLD THE
other junta MSM3ERS that the decision was made because the
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MUNISTS WORKING IN HIS OFFICE. LEIGH am MERINO ARGUEDthis MAY BE TRUE, THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL wasa VERY oooo JC8 ANDTRONG SUPPORTER OP THE RESS op UGUST REPORTED THAT THE
COMPTROLLER HADfiOUEST for RETIREMENT, INTER-ESTlNOLVi ftP^fcS5 OFUGUST REPORTED THAT HE WlTHOREW Th= R'jOUEST,
j , LE.ICH TOLD THE GENERALS that"'HE HAS ALSO cXPRESSEO his OPPOSITION to THE IDEA of ALLOWING CIVIC DSMOnSTRAT IONS IN nvOR of ThE GOVERNMENT DURING TH; ll september ANNIVERSARY
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OPPOSED to THE IDEA ofATIONAL CIVIC MOVEMENTUPPORT Or JUNTA
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