At the moment, Interior Minister Jarpa says the government fully intends to support the political liberalization. But he does not give many details. Mr. Seguel has now been released and charges against him dropped. But it took his 11-day hunger strike, the protests of the Alianza, and the intervention of Juan Francisco Fresno, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of Santiago, to secure his release. General Pinochet said he released the labor leader as ''a special deference'' to the archbishop.
Opposition leaders are clearly wary.