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PRETORIA, South Africa: The testimony of a man convicted of right-wing political murders in South Africa may solve a notorious, nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters...
...fact, there are no known recordings of Morello's favorite guitarist: Joe Hill, the Swedish-born singer-songwriter and union organizer who was executed in 1914 on trumped-up murder charges in Utah. The night before his death, Hill sent this message to a fellow labor leader: "Don't waste time in mourning. Organize." Hill's attitude, not his guitar chops, is what inspires Morello today: "He was poet laureate of the labor movement. He put revolutionary lyrics to very simple tunes and helped unite workers of different backgrounds and ethnicities. He helped them see their common interests through music...
...archbishop did not fear death, even with murder all around him in bloody Burundi. Stories had been whispered about Joachim Ruhuna. One told of how during an ambush by thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last...
Religion has played a key role in the genocidal violence racking Burundi and its neighbor Rwanda. But while the Roman Catholic Church in Rwanda has been shamed by incidents of priests and nuns leading massacres, the church in Burundi has spoken out against hatred, extremism and murder. For so doing, clerics have been threatened and killed in Burundi, where Christians, predominantly Catholics, form as much as 85% of the population--both Hutu and Tutsi. Ruhuna had received countless threats before, as have other prelates. Both Hutu and Tutsi blamed each other for the crime, and on Friday the military announced...
...Night the virgin directors made it look positively easy, even though Altman ultimately had to back out as producer. Tucci, best known as billionaire Richard Cross on the TV series Murder One, co-wrote the screenplay for Big Night "out of frustration with the films I was making." (Among his movies: Beethoven and Jury Duty.) Big Night's theme, making money vs. staying true to one's talents, will no doubt touch a chord in many of his peers. But the setting, a down-on-its-luck Italian restaurant, is all Tucci--a devotee of Italian food as well...