The World - News from March 11, 1986

Chilean President Augusto Pinochet renewed sweeping emergency powers to arrest and exile opponents without trial. The decree extends for a further six months the “state of threat to internal peace,” making opponents liable for up to three weeks in custody, banishment within Chile or exile abroad without charge. Meanwhile, Edwin Harrington, a leading opposition journalist, said his son, 19, was arrested without charge and held in prison for a number of hours before being returned home.