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Spain announced that it will allow prosecutors to seek former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's extradition from Britain. Chile immediately protested the move by recalling its ambassador from Spain. The approval in Madrid by the Spanish Cabinet leaves Pinochet's legal fate in the hands of Britain, where the former general was arrested on a Spanish warrant Oct. 16. The English High Court ruled that Pinochet's arrest was illegal because he is entitled to immunity as a former head of state.

Chile suspended all official visits with Britain and Spain on Friday and asked airlines to halt flights from Chile to the British-held Falkland Islands. Chile announced the moves after former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet appeared in a London court and was remanded on bail. Chile, which tacitly supported Britain in its 1982 war with Argentina over the southern Atlantic islands, is the main commercial air departure point to the Falklands, although there are infrequent flights from Britain.

If former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet wins his release this week from the gilded captivity of an exclusive clinic in London, he may return home to suffer more than the humiliation of having faced justice, however fleetingly, for the crimes of his regime.

If former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet wins his release this week from the gilded captivity of an exclusive clinic in London, he may return home to suffer more than the humiliation of having faced justice, however fleetingly, for the crimes of his regime.

As diplomatic and legal fights raged in three nations Monday over former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Chileans reacted to Britain's sudden arrest of their once-untouchable tyrant with all the fury and political conflict that are his legacy. There was little sympathy among the many who suffered the ruthlessness of the dictatorship.

A Supreme Court justice has ruled against the prosecution of military intelligence agents for the abduction and murder of Carmen Soria, a U.N. official and Spanish citizen killed here in 1976. The Thursday ruling confirmed an earlier decision by a military court to close the Soria case, a notorious emblem of unredressed human rights violations under Chile's former dictatorship. Gen.

Chile suspended all official visits with Britain and Spain on Friday and asked airlines to halt flights from Chile to the British-held Falkland Islands. Chile announced the moves after former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet appeared in a London court and was remanded on bail. Chile, which tacitly supported Britain in its 1982 war with Argentina over the southern Atlantic islands, is the main commercial air departure point to the Falklands, although there are infrequent flights from Britain.

Spain announced that it will allow prosecutors to seek former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's extradition from Britain. Chile immediately protested the move by recalling its ambassador from Spain. The approval in Madrid by the Spanish Cabinet leaves Pinochet's legal fate in the hands of Britain, where the former general was arrested on a Spanish warrant Oct. 16. The English High Court ruled that Pinochet's arrest was illegal because he is entitled to immunity as a former head of state.

As diplomatic and legal fights raged in three nations Monday over former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Chileans reacted to Britain's sudden arrest of their once-untouchable tyrant with all the fury and political conflict that are his legacy. There was little sympathy among the many who suffered the ruthlessness of the dictatorship.

A Supreme Court justice has ruled against the prosecution of military intelligence agents for the abduction and murder of Carmen Soria, a U.N. official and Spanish citizen killed here in 1976. The Thursday ruling confirmed an earlier decision by a military court to close the Soria case, a notorious emblem of unredressed human rights violations under Chile's former dictatorship. Gen.