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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1979, July 1 | |
| Presidential elections did not produce a clear victor. The Congress appointed an interim president and planned new elections. | 1 |
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| The military again seized power, but fell in a few weeks after a general strike and protests destabilized the regime. Congress elected Lydia Gueiler Tejada (Bolivia's first woman president) to serve in the interim. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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