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Lately, a lot more has been bothering General Augusto Pinochet of Chile than his bad back. Visiting the United Kingdom for surgery, the former dictator of Chile was threatened with extradition by a Spanish judge for mass murder and brutality during his reign. Britain's House of Lords declined to give him the immunity heads of state usually receive, since hostage-taking and torture "do not qualify as legitimate acts of a head of state." By December 11, the British home secretary must decide whether or not to give the man with the bad back a break...
...Although U.S. officials have indicated that they plan to release sealed documents concerning human rights abuses in Chile -- which include the murder of American citizens -- "they're still unlikely to release anything that would endanger U.S. security, and that may include information that embarrasses the U.S.," says Dowell. In other words, don't expect more Pentagon Papers...
Sentenced to die for the 1992 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi restaurant owner and a cook, Gurule is a man who saw nothing to lose in trying to escape--he was going to be executed anyway. He certainly wouldn't have been the first. More than 480 people have been executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 160 of them in Texas. Of the 3,500 inmates currently on death row nationwide, more than 450 are detained at Huntsville. It is interesting to note that Gurule was the first to escape from...
...catch it. Turkey's government -- which collapsed Wednesday in the face of a corruption scandal -- has signaled it would be happy to see the Kurdish rebel tried in a third country. Italy refused Turkey's request to extradite Ocalan, but Germany could still potentially charge him with incitement to murder. For all Turkey's protests, Italy's decision may actually help Ankara by sparing them the trouble that might have arisen from trying Ocalan at home. "Putting Ocalan on trial in Turkey could cause further turmoil here," says TIME Istanbul correspondent James Wilde. "Turkey would likely settle for rendering Ocalan...
PONTIAC, Mich.: It looks as if Sunday's "60 Minutes" broadcast was a double suicide after all. After going to the videotape, Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca announced Wednesday that he is charging Dr. Jack Kevorkian with first-degree premeditated murder (as well as criminal assistance to a suicide and delivery of a controlled substance) for his role in the death of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian has walked on murder charges twice before because the states in which the deaths took place had no law against assisted suicide. But on that score, Michigan was ready for him by three weeks...