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From: hernande%MATH.UCONN.EDU@uchcecvm.cec.uchile.cl (        Gaston Hernandez)
Subject: Un par de noticias
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:18:32 CST

Hola chile-lnos. Un par de noticias interesantes:
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NEW DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS IN LOTA
 The discovery by construction workers yesterday of
remains belonging to two more people on the site of a former
police station in Lota brings to four the total number of human
skeletons found in that area since December.
        One of the sets of remains found Monday in this mining town
near Concepcion has already been positively identified as
corresponding to a person arrested and subsequently disappeared
after the 1973 military coup.
         Workmen building an addition to a bank on a site facing the
town square which until 1987 had been occupied by Carabineros
reported their discovery to justice authorities who ordered a
temporary halt to the construction.
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 NSC SUMMONED IN RESPONSE TO DEPUTIES' CONSTITUTIONAL
  The constitutional accusation made by Concertation deputies
against three Supreme Court ministers and the General Auditor of
the Army caused consternation within the Supreme Court and the
military authorities. During the Christmas week the National
Security Council was summoned by President Aylwin, at the
petition of Acting President of the Supreme Court Marcos Aburto,
and of Commander-in-Chief of the Army General Pinochet.  There
follows a brief day-by-day account of what happened:
        October 30th. The third chamber of the Supreme Court rules
that the Chanfreau case should be passed to the military courts.
Minister Gloria Olivares, in charge of the case, emerges from the
ruling in tears. There are immediate protests from members of the
Concertation parties.
        December 15th. Ten Concertation deputies formalize a
constitutional accusation against Supreme Court Ministers Hernan
Cereceda, Leonel Beraud and German Valenzuela, and against
General Auditor of the Army Fernando Torres Silva, for the
"notable abandonment of their duties" in the Chanfreau case and
in other matters.
        December 24th. A declaration made after a plenary session of
the Supreme Court rejects the deputies' accusation. They find it
unacceptable that the House accuses their ministers of
abandonment of duties in response to the specific ruling in the
Chanfreau case; they dislike what they see as the general
intention to disparage them for the alleged denial of justice in
human rights cases of recent years; finally, they find the
accusation unconstitutional since it affects the independence
granted to the courts of justice by the Constitution.
        December 28th. Acting President of the Supreme Court Marcos
Aburto meets President Aylwin in La Moneda and urges the summons
of the National Security Council (the function of this organism
is to express an opinion to the President, the National Congress
or the Constitutional Courts concerning acts which, in the view
of the Security Council, seriously affect national institutions
or endanger national security). President Aylwin is reluctant to
do so, but the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and the Navy
support Aburto. The petition of two members of the National
Security Council is needed for it to be summoned.  Aylwin
anticipates the petitions from the military establishments and
calls a meeting of the Council for the following Wednesday.
        December 30th. National Security Council meets. There are
eight members with the right to vote: President Aylwin, who acts
as president of the Council; President of the Senate, Gabriel
Valdes; Acting President of the Supreme Court Marcos Aburto;
Commanders in Chief of the Army, General Augusto Pinochet, of the
Navy, Admiral Jorge Martinez, and of the Air Force, General Ramon
Vega; General Director of the Carabineros Rodolfo Stange
Oelckers; and General Auditor of the Republic Osvaldo Iturriaga
Ruiz.
        In the meeting, Aburto asserts that the deputies' accusation
violates article 73 of the Constitution, according to which
judicial decisions are the exclusive concern of the courts of
justice. The military commanders-in-chief and General Stange
support Aburto, and express their repudiation for the terms in
which the deputies speak of the military courts.
        Gabriel Valdes gives a strong defence of the constitutional
rights of the House of Deputies to make the accusation, and
objects to the summons of the Security Council in such
circumstances.
        President Aylwin, Valdes and Iturriaga agree that the
Security Council should not form an opinion on the accusation,
and in the final vote Air Force General Vega sides with them.
Although he rejects the criticisms of the Courts of Justice and
the accusation of the deputies, Vega thinks it inappropriate for
the Security Council to express this officially.
        At the end of the session, it is announced that "the members
of the Council expressed their points of view on the matter and
various of them indicated their concern in relation to the
implications and the effects which the constitutional accusation
may have in the terms in which it has been formulated."
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