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...Senator's tirade was prompted by Barnes' presence at a funeral procession for Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19, a Chilean-born resident of Rockville, Md., who had been killed during a general strike against the Pinochet regime on July 2. While visiting a shantytown near Santiago, witnesses said, de Negri and a Chilean student were doused with gasoline and set on fire by uniformed men with grease-blackened faces. Riot police later tear- gassed the funeral march. The U.S. had urged Chile to investigate the murder, and last week the army announced that it had arrested 25 soldiers...
...American Highway as it crosses Chile, the usual truck traffic was missing, and the few cars on the road had to dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...
...troops, their faces daubed with black to conceal their features, arrived at plazas and the teeming slums that border Chile's major cities. During the two-day protest, security forces killed eight people, including a 13-year-old girl who witnesses said was carrying bread home from a Santiago bakery. Thirty-eight people were wounded and 300 arrested, including 180 who have been detained. Leftist guerrillas reacted with counterviolence. They set off at least 30 bombs across Chile. The explosions blew up twelve power towers, casting half the country into darkness for several hours...
...Santiago's college career ended on a down-note when Harvard dropped The Game for the second straight year, thus losing a share of the Ivy title...
...yards rushing and all-around contribution--which included team-leading pass reception for the second straight year--Santiago again earned honorable-mention All-America and first-team All-Ivy honors...