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...disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted for. Pinochet, who has been in poor health and who is currently in a Chilean military hospital receiving treatment for severe headaches, has denied ordering the so-called Caravan of Death military squad to execute opponents in October 1973. He is expected to learn early this week whether he will face prosecution in Chile...
...That didn't stop Judge Juan Guzman from issuing an arrest warrant for Pinochet on Monday, ordering that he be placed under house arrest on charges relating to the notorious "Caravan of Death" campaign shortly after the general seized power in 1973. The campaign involved a group of Pinochet's top officers touring the country's military prisons, rounding up some 57 political detainees, and summarily executing them. (And these charges constitute but one case of more than 200 pending against the general...
...answers to Judge Guzman, Pinochet was not exactly heroic. In fact, it looks an awful lot like the man who'd headed the junta was trying to shift responsibility back down the chain of command, to the officers in charge of those garrisons visited by the "Caravan of Death." And, of course, the military is having none of it. They've always relied on the Nuremberg defense - "just following orders." Pinochet had for years maintained that his regime had done nothing to be ashamed of. When the evidence contradicted that, Pinochet's birthday speech was spun by his own family...
...began a weird, seven-day, 1,500-mile car trip to Arkansas, which grants adoptions in as few as 10 days if all the birth and adoptive parents agree. When motel rooms were full, the Kilshaws, Wecker, her daughter Nolle and her twins all slept in a green Dodge Caravan. The babies developed coughs, and one ended up in the hospital, dehydrated. But the adoption was approved in Arkansas. Just after Christmas the Kilshaws brought the babies, renamed Kimberly and Belinda, to their seven-bedroom farmhouse in northern Wales--and decided to tell their tale of Tina Johnson's double...
...illegal Guatemalan who lived in Chavez's house will not help. Perhaps Chavez is being set up as the designated sacrifice - the ritual victim whose rejection will be intended to warn the new Bush administration against more conservative Supreme Court appointments later in the game. The dogs Bork, the caravan moves...