The World - News from Nov. 19, 1987

Chilean President Augusto Pinochet accused the international press of distorting the truth about his country. In a speech at the opening of the annual meeting of the Inter-American Press Assn. in Santiago, the 71-year-old general said his military government has been subjected to a permanent campaign of falsehoods since taking power in a 1973 coup. Pinochet accused the Western press of collaborating in an international Marxist drive to misrepresent the reality of Chile. The meeting was preceded by two days of committee hearings in which the difficulties facing the press in many of the 34 member countries were debated.