The World - News from Aug. 6, 1985
Victor Paz Estenssoro, the old-guard leader of Bolivia’s nationalist revolution, won election for the fourth time as president and will take office today. His main opponent, Hugo Banzer, a conservative former military president who topped Paz in last month’s popular election, telephoned the new president to wish him well. Banzer also announced that he will lead a “loyal opposition.” Banzer’s gesture dispelled rumors of a military coup, which would have been in the long tradition of intervention by the Bolivian armed forces in politics.
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