Word: unfit
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...chief of the army visited Pinochet over the weekend and allegedly convinced him to submit to the medical tests so that all of this would be over soon. Because these medical tests are a good way out for Pinochet - most Chileans believe that the doctors will find him unfit to stand trial, and that'll be the end of it. Judge Guzman, the investigating judge, has also made it easier for Pinochet to back down by rescheduling the tests over four days, and providing a larger gap between those tests and his interrogation of the general, which is required...
...certainly looks set to be the pattern at least until he's been medically examined. The chances are that when that happens, doctors will find that he's medically and psychologically unfit to stand trial. And that'll be it for this case. But then there'll be appeals, and more cases brought against him. It's going to go on and on. But it's not going to seem as crucial as it does now. Pinochet's legal team will hope to convince the doctors only once that he's unfit for trial, and use that finding to fight...
Until then, Alabama had been in the forefront of foster-care reform. It had been set on that path after an incident in which local social workers used an unpaid utility bill to prove a man was unfit to raise his eight-year-old son, removed the child and placed him not in a foster home but in a psychiatric hospital, where the boy was isolated and heavily dosed with psychoactive drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on the father's behalf. As a result, the federal court not only remanded the boy to his father...
CHARGES DROPPED. Against former Indonesian President SUHARTO, 79; in Jakarta. Judges pronounced the ailing ex-strongman medically unfit to face corruption charges. Earlier in the week his youngest son Hutomo ("Tommy") Mandala Putra, 37, was fined $3.5 million and sentenced to 18 months in jail for corruption; Hutomo's lawyers will appeal...
...still troubled. She tells how her uncle was killed in the fighting and her family's new home in the capital, Freetown, burned down - then stops, eyes pleading for a new subject. Her coach, Francis Edwin, confides later that Williams' dearest friend was also killed. Still grieving and unfit, she arrived in Spain early last year for the world championships, and in her 100-meter heat (won by Inger Miller) finished last, in an embarrassing...