Pinochet supporters, backed by a Government-financed poll, are publicly predicting a close victory for him.

The medical tests could provide an independent measure of Pinochet supporters' demands that he be freed on grounds of ill health.

"There was a group of Pinochet supporters who thought when the wives of the disappeared died off, the problem will die with it," she said.

Then, as the motorcade drove off, Pinochet supporters ran up, kicking and punching Mr. Quayle's limousine and other cars in the procession.

Comments such as these, sprinkled throughout the Communist declaration, have caused nervousness among other anti-Pinochet parties and raised the spirits of the Pinochet supporters.

Government Seeks Advantage The officially encouraged attention was another sign that Pinochet supporters believed that the decision by the Communists could be turned to their benefit.

Pinochet supporters have often criticized foreign news coverage of Chile and in the one-month campaign period before the vote the criticism became outwardly hostile.

Pinochet supporters are right to admire those accomplishments, but wrong to believe that they required dictatorship.

Both human rights groups and Pinochet supporters will probably demonstrate outside the hospital.

It is the continuing indecisiveness of the Chilean voter, according to Pinochet supporters, that is causing the nervousness in his campaign.