The World - News from Jan. 7, 1985
More than 2,000 mourners in Santiago, Chile, turned the funeral of Matilde Urrutia, widow of 1971 Nobel Literature Prize-winner Pablo Neruda, into a demonstration against President Augusto Pinochet’s military government. The mourners repeatedly chanted anti-government slogans to protest the state of siege imposed by Pinochet two months ago to curb unrest. They also chanted in support of the outlawed Communist Party. Neruda, who died in 1973, was a leading member of the party.
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