1.   An American who worked for the Chilean agency and a former Chilean army officer confessed their involvement and implicated the two officers.

2.   But the Chilean army said that the general had no intention of stepping down and that it would not investigate the Prats killing.

3.   The Chilean army has also criticized Argentina for prosecuting the case, saying that the Menem administration was using the Prats case to discredit the Chilean military.

4.   The dictator, moreover, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, still commands a Chilean army that answers to him, not to democratically elected President Eduardo Frei.

5.   Until just before the coup, Pinochet was an obscure Chilean army general.

6.   Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean army until March, has viisted British weapons facilities in the past on buying missions.

7.   Pinochet, who remained commander-in-chief of the Chilean army until March, has been a regular visitor to Britain.

8.   Pinochet remains head of the Chilean army and most likely was involved in the decision not to prosecute.

9.   A day after the government rebuked Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean army Tuesday expressed unconditional support for the former dictator and warned his critics to watch their step.

10.   Also, the Chilean army is developing a land-to-land rocket launcher with Royal Ordance of Britain.