Police hold 400
NZPA-Reuter Santiago Police arrested more than 400 people during anti-Govemment protests in Santiago and other Chilean cities. The protests were in support of a 24hour strike called by opposition unions, police sources said. Witnesses said at least seven people were injured, including a policeman and a youth who were hit by bullets, in the most violent clashes of their kind in Chile in over a year. As darkness fell, youths in outlying working-class districts of .Santiago, traditional hotbeds of opposition to the military rule of President Augusto Pinochet, manned burning barricades. Shots and explosions were heard. A
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