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...three or four men sharing 32 sq. ft. and a hole for a toilet. The President also accepted the petitions of those who say they were wrongly accused of terrorism--personally taking the smudgy pages as inmates shoved them through the bars. Fujimori promises to take them to the Belgian-born priest, Hubert Lanssiers, who heads up his commission to examine wrongful convictions. "I realize we have some incompetent judges out there," he admits. "Now that we've defeated the terrorists, we can change that." But Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos, his shadowy intelligence adviser and most trusted aide, were still...
According to McDougal attorney Bobby McDaniel, the former friend of Bill told her Belgian-born mother the night before she went off to jail of her decision not to testify. Her mother, who had served in the Resistance during World War II, supported the decision, telling her daughter, "If I could stand up to Hitler, you can stand up to Kenneth Starr." As if that weren't formidable enough, McDougal also faces a two-year sentence for her conviction on four felony counts related to Whitewater--a conviction that is being appealed...
...outraged over the dismissal of the judge investigating a child sex-ring case marched throughout the country Tuesday. Car workers marched to the Brussels Justice Palace as bus drivers, steel workers, railway employees firefighters and oil workers all spontaneously went out on strike. The strikes are in response a Belgian Supreme Court decision to remove investigating judge Jean-Marc Conerotte from the case of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux. The Court said Conerotte prejudiced himself by attending a charity fundraiser dinner for the families of missing children. Conerotte received national acclaim after his investigators rescued two imprisoned girls and found...
...procedure might preserve defective sperm cells that nature would have eliminated. Men with low sperm counts may also have a higher incidence of chromosomal abnormalities and may be at higher risk of passing on genetic defects. But clinical studies so far provide no evidence to support these fears. Belgian scientists have examined a thousand babies born as a result of the technique and found no higher rate of birth defects than in the general population. Nonetheless, the procedure is still considered experimental...
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Its a horror story that could have come from 'The Silence Of The Lambs.' Belgians are reeling from shock and anger over the discovery Saturday of the bodies of two long-missing eight-year-old girls, dug up from a makeshift grave, and the rescue of two other kidnapped teens from the basement dungeon of the suspect, a convicted child rapist who had been released early on parole. Handyman Marc Dutroux, whose confession led police to the bodies of the two dead girls, admitted he kidnapped two other missing teenaged girls, and a search is underway for their...