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    "No" casts a darkly comic eye at an ad campaign that helped unseat Chile's entrenched military dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. In 1988, Chile's government conducted a referendum on Pinochet's rule as means of placating allies and trading partners who were agitating for democratic change in the South American country. A "yes" vote meant eight more years of dictatorship; "no" meant multi-party elections.

  • Arturo Zamora, son of trapped miner Victor Zamora, looks at a cake during the celebration of his father's 34th birthday at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. After more than two months trapped deep in the gold and copper mine, 33 miners are close to being freed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

    Test shows Chile mine rescue shaft works

    Rescuers on Monday reinforced the hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and then successfully lowered a rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where the men are trapped, showing the escape route works.

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