The World - News from Aug. 27, 1986

The U.S. State Department urged the government of Chile to prevent harassment of witnesses testifying in the case involving the death of a Chilean who was a permanent resident of the United States. Deputy spokesman Charles Redman made the appeal following the arrest of three people who said they were at the scene last month when Rodrigo Rojas, 19, and a friend, Carmen Quintana, were burned. Rojas died of his injuries days later, and Quintana remains hospitalized in Chile. Redman said the United States considers it “very important that all the facts surrounding this terrible crime be ascertained and that all those responsible promptly be brought to justice.”