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...April after spying nine years for the Soviet Union. Intelligence documents obtained last week by TIME, including parts of the CIA inspector general's report on the Ames case, illustrate how badly the agency bungled its handling of the agent. Strong evidence of his poor performance, and later his treason, were ignored for years by an old-boy network that included friends of Ames' father Carleton, himself a hard-drinking CIA veteran...
...Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's military leader General Sani Abacha declared absolute power, issuing decrees placing his military government above the country's courts and allowing detention of people for up to three months without charges. Abiola, widely believed to have won the annulled 1993 presidential election, awaits trial on treason charges...
...attempted political assassination, a brutal assault on Haitians waiting in line to apply for political asylum in the U.S. and a threat to close down local press organizations that report "alarmist news." They finished the week by ordering their Justice Ministry to prepare a case charging Aristide , with treason for supporting foreign intervention to restore him to power...
...months ago, Abiola surprised everyone by marking the anniversary of his thwarted inauguration with an uncharacteristically audacious pronouncement: he declared himself President. Within a fortnight, he was arrested, charged with treason and thrown in jail. Since then, his power has only increased. Last Friday, when a high court in the capital ordered Abiola to be released on ! condition that he do nothing to undermine the government, the businessman turned politician rejected the offer. He said he would accept only unconditional freedom and vowed to carry on his campaign from prison...
Haiti's Justice Ministry, on orders of the military-backed government, began treason proceedings against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for backing foreign intervention to restore him to power. TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, in Port-au-Prince, says the "mock trial" is yet another verbal volley designed to make Haiti's rulers look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving...