Latin Generals Vie Again for Power at Summit, Clinton Hails Democracy. but Ex-Military Leaders Are Showing Up in Politics

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The tinkling of brass that President Clinton heard while in South America last weekend came from former military leaders returning to power.

That tinkling may become a clanging.

As he sat down with 33 other heads of state here over the weekend for the second Summit of the Americas, Mr. Clinton met only one former military leader in the group: President Hugo Banzer of Bolivia, a former general and a 1970s military dictator. But that club of one may be expanding soon. In two other South American countries - Colombia and Venezuela - former military leaders are running for president in elections this year. In other countries members of past military juntas are …