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...have done." Actually, he had done quite a lot. After a fortnight of shuttle diplomacy, Samore had pretty well averted the danger of war between Argentina and Chile. At the close of a meeting in nearby Montevideo, Uruguay, the Argentine government of President Jorge Rafael Videla and the Chilean junta of President Augusto Pinochet signed an agreement in which they promised not to use force against each other, pledged to reduce the military buildup along their 2,600-mile border, and asked the Pope to mediate the outstanding dispute between them...
Declaring himself an "independent Marxist," Reed settled in a plush lakeside villa in East Berlin in 1973 and married an East German; they are now divorced. He has kept his American citizenship and periodically revisited the U.S. He came to Minnesota to promote El Cantor, a movie about a Chilean singer who Reed claims was tortured to death after the fall of Marxist President Salvador Allende...
...took the premeditated murder of a former diplomat to put teeth into a Justice Department with a sometime questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...
...question of Pinochet's personal involvement in the assasination is still unresolved. The Chilean people have called for a full explanation from Pinochet, who continues to deny any involvement in the assassination, and has labeled pernicious the reports of his long-time friendship with Contreras. lies...
Israel Borquez, president of the Chilean Supreme Court, will have the opportunity to resolve many unanswered questions when he reviews the extradition requests. Under the terms of the extradition treaty between Chile and the United States, Borquez has four alternatives: he could find the evidence insufficient to warrant extradition and refuse to hear the case; he could label the assasination a political crime, which would also bar a trial under the treaty; he could order a trial in Chile, either open or closed; or he could decide to extradite the accused...