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pinochet061210.sPubDate = "12/10/2006 6:51:01 PM GMT";
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pinochet061210.appHeader = "Fact file | Augusto Pinochet";
pinochet061210.appDeck = "Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ruled his country from 1973 to 1990. He died on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.";
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pinochet061210.rows[i++] = "Pinochet was the army&#146;s commander-in-chief when he assumed power in Chile in a violent U.S.-supported coup that began Sept. 11, 1973, and ousted Marxist President Salvador Allende. Allende killed himself during the coup.</p>";
pinochet061210.rows[i++] = "Some 3,000 people died in political violence during Pinochet&#146;s 1973-1990 rule, while tens of thousands were tortured and an estimated 200,000 went into exile.";
pinochet061210.rows[i++] = "Pinochet was voted out in a 1988 referendum and stepped down in 1990, but stayed on as head of the armed forces and took a seat as a lifetime senator under a clause he had added to the constitution.";
pinochet061210.rows[i++] = "In 1998 a Spanish judge called for Pinochet&#146;s extradition to stand trial in Spain on grounds that some of the victims of his regime were Spaniards. Pinochet was in London at the time and spent 17 months under house arrest before Britain returned him to Chile due to ill health. He also faced suits at home from the families of people killed by Chile&#146;s secret police.";
pinochet061210.rows[i++] = "On his 91st birthday on Nov. 25, 2006, Pinochet issued a statement accepting &#147;political responsibility&#148; for acts committed during his rule but said his only motive was to make Chile &#147;a great place and prevent its disintegration.&#148;";

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