Word: ecuador
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...release from house arrest and gunrunning charges by announcing that he will seek re-election in 2003. The Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that he and his brother-in-law were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995. Menem insisted the arms sales, officially bound for Panama and Venezuela, were legal, but a corruption inquiry into possible profiteering continues...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Last April, U.S. embassies in Uruguay, Paraguay and Ecuador shut down for three days after receiving "credible threats" of attacks...
ARRESTED. CARLOS MENEM, 70, flamboyant reformist President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999; on charges of leading a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador while in office; in Buenos Aires. The first elected Argentine President ever arrested, Menem is too old to go to jail; under Argentine law, suspects 70 or older are kept under house arrest...
...Each president has to say something to his constituents," Fisher says. "Ecuador could say 'We own it' and Peru could say 'We have sovereignty...
...situation with Peru and Ecuador, both sides in the Harvard conflict need to find a politically acceptable...