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Pogrund was unavailable yesterday for comment about Qoboza's arrest...
Alex L. Boraine, a fellow at the Center for International Affairs who will return to South Africa tomorrow to take up his seat in the South African parliament, yesterday called the arrest "a very ominous sign...
Nieman Curator Thomson, who has followed events in South Africa closely since his visit there last year, yesterday agreed with Boraine's evaluation of Qoboza's arrest. He called it "a serious escalation of the government's effort to intimidate the press...
Boraine called the arrest "a sign that the government is prepared to be more and more repressive in its effort to retain its dominance...
...defense had its own problems, including some never-resolved inconsistencies. Neither Lynch nor Byrne fully explained why after their arrest they initially told the FBI that two men accosted them at a Manhattan hotel and forced them to nab Bronfman. Nor did they ever explain why they next gave written confessions to the FBI saying that they spent months scouting the Bronfman estate to plan the grab-without ever mentioning any involvement on Sam Bronfman's part. It would be up to the jury to decide, if indeed it could, whose story to believe...