Thousands Celebrate In Streets of Santiago On Learning of Death
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 10 -- Thousands of jubilant Chileans streamed into the streets of Santiago after hearing that their former president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, had died Sunday. Many danced and popped open champagne, while caravans of cars with horns blaring toured the capital for hours.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of teachers and   supporters marched peacefully through Chile's capital on   Tuesday to demand higher wages for educators, avoiding a repeat   of the violent clashes between students and police in June.
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Some in Chile celebrated with champagne but for others, there was no joy in death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, only the sense of a final injustice committed by the dictator who brutally ruled the country for 17 years.
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SANTIAGO -- About 5,000 supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned yesterday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.
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A funeral is to be held for Chile's former military leader, Augusto Pinochet, in the capital, Santiago.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 11 -- When the Mass concluded with a benedictory prayer Monday afternoon, several hundred mourners mingled quietly for a moment around the glass-topped coffin of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, crossing themselves and stealing one final look at the pale visage of a man who ruled this country with an iron hand from 1973 to 1990....
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Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up photographs in the gymnasium at the center of the tragedy.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hundreds of Chileans were expected to file past the body of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, a day after the former dictator, whose 17-year rule polarized his South American homeland, died at the age of 91.