World News Tonight (ABC) - 1984-11-18

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1984-11-18
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[0:01] [music]

[0:04] From ABC News, [music] this is World

[0:07] News Tonight, Sunday. Now, from our

[0:09] Washington headquarters, [music]

[0:11] here is Sam Donaldson.

[0:12] >> Good evening. The clash of church and

[0:14] state intensified today in Chile. The

[0:16] Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santiago,

[0:18] Juan Francisco Fresno, attacked the

[0:20] state of siege imposed November 6th by

[0:22] the country's military regime and called

[0:24] for a national day of fasting and prayer

[0:26] next Friday. An open challenge to the

[0:29] government's attempt to silence the

[0:30] church. James Wooten has details from

[0:33] Santiago.

[0:36] [music]

[0:40] With Chile's police band in concert,

[0:42] what began as a leisurely Sunday in the

[0:45] capital central [music] plaza soon

[0:47] became an ugly little symbol of the

[0:49] country's underlying tensions.

[0:54] On the steps of Santiago's ancient

[0:56] cathedral, progovern agitators provoke

[0:59] several fights after walking out on

[1:01] Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno's stern

[1:04] condemnation of the military Juna's

[1:06] state of siege, a national emergency

[1:09] imposed by President Pinoett 12 days ago

[1:12] in response to violence he blames on

[1:14] communist revolutionaries.

[1:16] Since then, police have arrested

[1:18] hundreds of young men in the city's

[1:20] slums. A nighttime curfew is in effect.

[1:23] All political activity is illegal.

[1:26] Several publications have been shut

[1:27] down. And the remaining media are under

[1:30] tight censorship. Even the archbishop is

[1:32] forbidden to broadcast to the country's

[1:35] 10 million Catholics 90% of the

[1:37] populace. And so to circumvent that

[1:40] blackout, [music] his criticism of the

[1:42] government was read by priests in every

[1:44] pa