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...alone in navigating the treacherous waters of Europe's new enthusiasm for cross-border justice. On a recent visit to Paris, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger found himself subpoenaed to give evidence to a French judge investigating the killing of French citizens in General Pinochet's Chile. Dr. Kissinger declined the invitation. But it's unlikely to be the last one he receives. And sooner or later, the European indictment will become a standard arrow in the quiver of aggrieved parties across the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...
...Pinochet, 85, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, is suffering from a host of ailments, ranging from high blood pressure and diabetes to arthritis. He has had three mild strokes in as many years and has a pacemaker; last week, he spent six days in the hospital, where he received treatment for high blood pressure...
...Among the likely pressures on the judges was the possibility that a Pinochet trial would tear Chile in two, according to Cristobal Edwards, a TIME correspondent in Santiago. With Chileans divided between intense love and hate for their former ruler, a trial could have spurred a social civil war. "For months they've been trying to find a way out that suits everyone's needs," says Edwards...
...criminal, Hitchens maintains that the fear of possible prosecution or involvement in civil action is on Kissinger’s mind. Indeed, Kissinger left France after a French judge issued a summons for the former secretary to be questioned about the disappearance of French citizens in Chile...