The World - News from April 28, 1985
Police in Santiago arrested 264 people who were celebrating the 52nd anniversary of the founding of Chile’s outlawed Socialist Party, the semi-official news agency Orbe reported. It quoted Interior Ministry sources as saying that 22 children among the reported 60 women and children taken into custody were released. The remainder will be held up to five days while charges against them are studied, the agency said. President Augusto Pinochet had banned political meetings in a crackdown on dissidence.
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