Santiago - The former Chilean dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, refused yesterday to submit to medical tests and an interrogation ordered by a judge seeking to put him on trial for murder and kidnapping, one of his lawyers said.
"The Pinochet family has followed the advice given by the legal defence team," to ignore the order from Judge Juan Guzman Tapia, a Pinochet lawyer said. Meanwhile an opinion poll suggested that 50 per cent of Chileans support the order to arrest and try the general for alleged human rights crimes during his 1973-1990 dictatorship.