The World - News from Sept. 8, 1988

Riot police in Chile used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a sit-down protest at Santiago’s central library by members of a Chilean human rights group that included priests and nuns. Members of the Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture said that four people were injured and 20 were arrested. A second, separate protest occurred outside a Santiago church where President Augusto Pinochet was attending a Mass in memory of five of his bodyguards slain in an assassination attempt two years ago. Pinochet, 72, sole candidate in a presidential plebiscite Oct. 5, was greeted by about 30 protesters who shouted “murderer” at the army general, who took power in a bloody 1973 coup.