Men Identified as Police Kill Chilean Editor

An editor of an opposition magazine banned under the new state of siege was shot to death after being taken from his home by men who identified themselves as police, the man’s family reported today.

President Augusto Pinochet, meanwhile, attended the funeral of five bodyguards slain during Sunday’s ambush of his motorcade. Pinochet, slightly injured in the assassination attempt, attended the funeral after threatening to expel or jail human rights activists in a fresh campaign against leftists.

Relatives of Jose Carrasco, foreign editor of the weekly newsmagazine Analisis, said his body was found late Monday near a suburban Santiago cemetery. He had been shot in the head, the relatives said.

Police Deny Arrest

Police denied having arrested Carrasco, who was also a director of the Chilean Journalists’ Assn.

The professional organization confirmed his assassination. Analisis was one of six opposition newsmagazines banned Monday. Carrasco, a leftist, had returned from exile in 1984.

He was taken from his home at dawn Monday by armed men in civilian clothes who identified themselves as police, but refused to exhibit identification, relatives said.

Police reported that 16 people have been arrested on orders from the interior minister under the state of siege decreed Sunday night after guerrillas ambushed a presidential motorcade with machine guns, rockets and grenades. Five bodyguards were killed and 10 others wounded.

Top Officers Attend

The 70-year-old Pinochet, wearing his five-star general’s uniform, was accompanied during the funeral at the national military academy by the nation’s top civilian and military authorities.

Pinochet, the army commander and strongman of the ruling four-man junta, presented posthumous decorations to relatives of the slain army and police officers.

Police announced the release of two American Roman Catholic missionary priests arrested Monday during raids on leftist neighborhoods of Santiago slums. (Story, Page 8.) Three French and a Chilean priest remained jailed.