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...April 26, 1992, after two rounds of voting widely judged to have been free and fair, civilian Alpha Oumar Konare was elected President, and A.T.T., now an immensely powerful and popular general, stepped down. Instead of returning to the barracks, he took on the job of fighting Guinea worm disease and now also mediates regional disputes...
...this--no way!'" Hoster told TIME. "There were 19 bullets, and you can't dodge them all, but he came pretty close," she added. "It's so unjust for the system to say these six women are nothing and his character is everything." But after the verdicts, McKinney's civilian lawyer, Charles Gittins, praised his client's relaxed demeanor on the stand and noted that his accusers had "credibility problems." Denying Hoster's charge, for instance, McKinney testified that he had visited her hotel room not for sex but to fire her. Prosecutors pointed out that he had been wearing...
...four men now face an Article 32 hearing -- the equivalent of a civilian grand jury -- which will decide on a court-martial. Thompson believes that the Marines will be tougher on their fliers than the Air Force was on the F-15 pilots who accidentally shot down two Blackhawk helicopters in 1994. ?The Marines have a reputation for accountability,? says Thompson, ?and everyone in uniform will be watching very closely...
...held responsible for thousands of deaths and disappearances, you ought to be careful what you wish for. Case in point: General Augusto Pinochet, who Wednesday took up the lifetime Senate seat he'd engineered for himself by rewriting the country's constitution -- and immediately got a taste of civilian politics. Opposition legislators taunted him with pictures of some of those murdered or "disappeared" under his regime, and there was a shout of "Assassin!" as he was sworn in. Novel experiences for a man whose opponents risked torture and death for standing up to him during his 17 years in power...
Working with the same person for months establishes a strong bond between tutor and tutee. Although we are prohibited from asking them what crime they have committed, inmates often volunteer this information, along with stories about their families and prison life. For some inmates, we are the only civilian contact they encounter throughout their stay in prison, a fact which often blurs the line between our role as tutor and confidante...