Miami Herald April 5, 1999 Kissinger supports release of Pinochet Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Sunday joined calls for extradition proceedings against ex-Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet to be dropped and for the 83-year-old to be allowed home. ``I would be very happy if Pinochet was allowed home,'' Kissinger told The Sunday Telegraph. ``This episode has gone on long enough and all my sympathies are with him.'' ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ Miami Herald April 5, 1999 Court orders arrest of former police agents SANTIAGO -- An appeals court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a dozen agents of former President Augusto Pinochet who are suspected of involvement in the 1982 slaying of labor leader Tucapel Jimenez., officials said. The suspects, who include retired Gen. Ramses Alvarez, retired Col. Maximiliano Ferrer and Capt. Raul Descalzi, were members of the former secret police organization known as the National Information Center (CNI). The move came as a surprise because last November, a judge had closed the case and cleared four ex-CNI agents of charges in connection with the murder of Jimenez, who was found with his throat cut near Santiago days after issuing a call for workers to unite and restore democracy in Chile.
