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...fact, Reed is an indifferent performer by American standards and a habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy...
...DAYS AGO the United States formally asked Chile to extradite three former Chilean secret police agents who have been accused of assasinating Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. under Allende and outspoken critic of the present right wing military junta...
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...
...ever to know the truth about Pinochet's involvement in Letelier's murder, the Court must choose the last of these alternatives. In the event that the Court decides to quash the investigation, however, we urge the U.S. government to sever economic and diplomatic relations with Chile...
...Korea's Park Chung-Hee has twice used martial law as a means of crushing dissent. Taiwan has never done so, but under a 30-year-old state of emergency the government can detain suspected opponents and try them in secret military courts. During the first year of Chile's state of siege following the 1973 overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende, an estimated 33,000 people disappeared or were killed. Pakistan is ruled by a "martial law administrator," General Zia ul-Haq, though his ministries are now headed by civilians. Nigeria, Ghana and Sudan all have military...