The World - News from July 15, 1986

Chile’s largest opposition force, the Christian Democratic Party, urged the nation’s military to withdraw its support of President Augusto Pinochet. “There is an arbitrary power in Chile that wants to perpetuate itself,” Christian Democratic leader Gabriel Valdes said, referring to Pinochet’s announcement last week that he plans to remain in power until 1997. “The country needs to know the opinion of the armed forces,” he added. The Roman Catholic Church also criticized the government and blamed a recent wave of violence on a “climate of increasing frustration.”