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...bomb attack that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffit, in Washington. U.S. intelligence was aware that the general, long considered one of Washington's key allies in the region, had contacted Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner in the summer of that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack. The man convicted in 1993 of ordering the attack, Pinochet's intelligence chief General Manuel Contreras, has also been shown...
SWORN IN. LUIS GONZALEZ MACCHI, 52, former Paraguayan pro-basketball player and Senate president; as President of Paraguay; in Asuncion. Macchi took over for impeached President Raul Cubas...
Virginia governor Jim Gilmore put U.S. justice above foreign policy concerns when he declined to stay the execution last night of Paraguayan national Angel Francisco Breard. Breard died by lethal injection at the Greenville Correctional Center for the 1992 murder and attempted rape of his Arlington neighbor Ruth Dickie...
...World Court had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone the execution in order to consider Paraguay?s claim that Breard might have received a lesser sentence had law enforcement officials not breached international convention by failing to inform the Paraguayan consulate of his arrest. Madeleine Albright made a similar appeal to Gilmore. ?The State Department intervened because it has to protect the interests of U.S. citizens living overseas,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. ?They didn?t want this to be taken as an excuse by foreign governments to deny U.S. citizens the right to contact their consulate...
DIED. ANDRES RODRIGUEZ, 73, iron-fisted Paraguayan general turned President who overthrew his repressive boss, Alfredo Stroessner, in 1989; of cancer; in New York. Stroessner's right-hand apparatchik for most of the dictator's nearly 35-year reign, Rodriguez abruptly unlearned his loyal habits when he was elected President after the 1989 coup, urging democratization. He silenced skeptics by voluntarily stepping down in 1993, but the grand gesture was later tainted by persistent charges of drug smuggling...