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...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...
...casting is both daring and first-rate. Altman has somehow made an ensemble out of a group that includes (in no particular order of significance) Lillian Gish, Pat McCormick, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Dina Merrill, Nina van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts...
...Something has happened in the District of Columbia." Two days after receiving this cryptic phone message from an accomplice, Michael Townley, 33, an American-born agent of Chile's secret police (DINA), flew home to Santiago from Miami, his mission accomplished. It was to assassinate Orlando Letelier, 42, a self-exiled former Chilean Ambassador and eloquent critic of the military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Letelier was killed in Washington on Sept. 21, 1916, by a remote-controlled bomb planted in his blue Chevelle; killed with him was an American aide, Ronni Moffit...
Last week a 22-month Justice Department investigation of the slayings ended when a federal grand jury indicted General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, a Pinochet crony who headed the Chilean Secret Service, which was abolished a year ago; DINA Operations Director Pedro Espinoza Bravo; DINA Agent Armando Fernández Larios and four Cuban exiles who belong to a fanatically anti-Castro group in the U.S. All seven were charged with murder...
...Attorney Dina Kaminskaya was chosen by Shcharansky and Ginzburg to represent them. She was then disbarred for her previous, vigorous defense of several other dissenters and forced into exile ten months ago. In Washington last week she argued that "the dissident movement will not be defeated in spite of all these persecutions. There will always be people who surface to fight, even when the persecutions become more cruel...