FILE - In this Sept. 18, 1985 file photo, Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet salutes during Independence Day celebrations in Santiago, Chile. Chile is backing off a controversial plan to remove the word "dictatorship" from school textbooks in reference to the military government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. A political uproar resulted when President Sebastian Pinera's new Education Minister Harald Beyer announced the plan. Beyer said schoolchildren should be taught a more "general" term, calling Pinochet's 17-year-rule a "military regime." More than 3,000 members of the opposition were killed during the military government. (AP Photo, File)