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...about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that Pinochet's junta murdered five years ago with U.S. government encouragement and support, the thousands of Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...expected to be released soon. Local parole boards are likely to review the cases and release others who have already spent years in Mexico. Still other prisoners are planning to seek their release on writs of habeas corpus, contending that Mexican courts do not have the authority to imprison anyone in the U.S. Some are even expected to appeal on grounds that the U.S.-Mexican treaty forced them to waive their constitutional rights of due process when they pledged not to contest their convictions in U.S. courts. One big problem: if such legal challenges are sustained, there will probably...
...Vorster regime's response have only highlighted issues that have become sadly routine in South Africa. Biko was the 43rd black South African since 1963 and the 21st in the past 18 months to die while being held in prison under the Detention Act, which allows the government to imprison dissidents without specifying charges. The South African Institute of Race Relations, an organization that opposes apartheid, recently issued a report challenging the official police versions of nine of these last 21 deaths. The report also lists 662 political prisoners currently being detained in South African prisons, 97 of whom have...
...died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably, some of these thoughts are of a randy nature, and pretty soon it has plugged itself into Weaver's all-electric home in order to imprison and then impregnate Christie...
...preselected for his private taste. CB radio now has begun to provide every citizen with his own broadcasting and receiving station. Each of us will be in danger of being suffocated by our own tastes. Moreover, these devices that enlarge our sight and vision in space seem somehow to imprison us in the present. The electronic technology that reaches out instantaneously over the continents does very little to help us cross the centuries...