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...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...
...feared, and even his supporters now favor the general's retirement from public life. Being shamed in Britain, which excused him from standing trial for crimes against humanity only because of his ailing health, has been deeply humiliating for the renowned Anglophile, and his ordeal may not be over. Chilean judge Juan Guzman is currently considering some 59 lawsuits brought against Pinochet, and the judge wants more medical tests to establish his fitness to stand trial. Of course Pinochet has plenty of legal grounds to hold off the prosecutors, particularly in light of the legal amnesty he insisted...
...past month, the Chilean air force has had a plane waiting at a British airfield to take General Augusto Pinochet home; right now, the former dictator might as well unpack his bags. Britain's High Court Tuesday overruled Home Secretary Jack Straw's decision to keep Pinochet's medical records secret from countries seeking his extradition, compelling Britain to make them available - in confidence - to Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and France. The results of a series of medical tests ordered by the British government prompted Straw last month to announce he was "minded" to send Pinochet home on compassionate grounds rather...
...suit represents a legitimate claim of the many Chilean citizens who were the victims of undeserved violence and coercion. Thousands of Chileans still search for family members who "disappeared" and thousands more nurse the scars, both physical and emotional, incurred during Pinochet's 17-year rein...
...worldwide threat to fundamental human rights. If attempts to re-examine Pinochet's medical condition fail, he may still face prosecution in Chile, but his conviction there would be unlikely. Although the wounds from Pinochet's regime will never completely heal, Isabel Allende and many other Chilean citizens would be able to rest a little easier knowing that justice is finally being served...