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...them may be former President Salinas and his brother Raul. After Zedillo's election, both men fell into disgrace: Raul is now in jail near Mexico City and Carlos is living in self-imposed exile in Cuba. Raul was originally arrested for his alleged role in the murder of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, secretary-general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. But evidence has recently surfaced suggesting--although not yet proving--that he may have been linked with Garcia Abrego's gulf cartel. Perhaps most damning is the suspicion that when Salinas was President, Raul allegedly used his influence...
MADRID, SPAIN: Thursday's indictment of former Spanish interior minister Jose Barrionuevo on charges that he ordered the killing and kidnapping of Basque separatists could signal the end of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez's 14-year reign. "This announcement is a slap in the face to Gonzalez and his party," reports TIME's Jane Walker from Madrid. "People have a hard time believing that Gonzalez did not know about the death squads. But the Prime Minister has given no indication that he will take Barrionuevo's name off a candidate list for the March 3 national elections. Gonzalez...
...shut down. In California alone, membership has fallen from 39,758 in 1990 to 31,168 in mid-1995, which leads Bruce, for one, to question the 270,000 membership figure touted by the national office. "The organization has turned inward, and there is no new vision," says Marie Jose Ragab, president of Dulles NOW in Virginia...
...Wash., 8 p.m. Washin. at N. Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Florida at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Florida at Calgary, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at S. Jose, 10:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Vanc... 10:30 p.m. S. Jose at L. Angeles...
...newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military intelligence, the pilots told them what really happened." The pilots, Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lt. Jose Souvignet, were beaten and kicked by Serb soldiers from the moment they were first taken captive on August 30. In prison the beatings continued and the pilots were subjected to mock executions. "No other news organization has been able to confirm this yet," says Crumley, "but the paper...