The World - News from Jan. 17, 1986

The State Department criticized as “clearly inadequate” security protection given to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy during his visit to Chile and said that demonstrators who heckled him represented a pro-government organization. Spokesman Bernard Kalb said Chilean authorities failed to clear demonstrators out of the road that the Massachusetts Democrat and his party intended to take after their airport arrival in Santiago on Wednesday. Kennedy, indicating that the protesters may have been hired by the government to embarrass him, called them a “rent-a-crowd.” Kennedy, a strong critic of the Chilean military government, later flew to Lima, Peru.