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...seventh detainee is Moroccan and the eighth, Luis José Galán González, is a Spaniard from a wealthy family and a convert to what investigators call a particularly fanatic style of Islam. Last July he went to Indonesia to train with the group Lashkar Jihad, which investigators say is supported by and allied to al-Qaeda. When he was arrested police found pictures of him dressed as a mujahedin with a shotgun in one hand and a pistol in the other. "When we put him in jail, he said he wanted two things: a toothbrush...
...These last alternatives have been denied consistently by former Socialist leader Felipe González, Prime Minister from 1982 until his defeat by the incumbent José María Aznar in 1996, and various inquiries have not found grounds to charge González with a single offense. Not so his former Interior Minister, José Barrionuevo, or his former State Security Director, Rafael Vera; both were convicted over the first GAL-claimed crime, a 1983 kidnapping...
...would blame the people of Florida if they were starting to get a little snippy, as Al Gore might put it. First they provided - and endured - the superabundant drama of Elián González. Now all the frustrations of one of the closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the electoral college to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, even...
...story emerged. Following a clandestine meeting of its Central Committee last December, the F.P.L. accused its deceased founder of "grave political, ideological and moral deformations," and of ordering Anaya Monies' murder. As a sign of its new, "moderate" direction, it named as Cayetano Carpio's successor Leonel González, 39, a former schoolteacher whose revolutionary specialty is underground organizing. The F.P.L. also acknowledged the breakaway of a more violence-prone splinter faction, the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers' Movement...
Despite his admissions of murder, González has not been charged. Officials have charged Durazo with tax evasion, illegal possession of weapons and smuggling, crimes that could put him in prison for 20 years, and other investigations are under way. The only trouble is they have been unable to arrest him because no one knows where...