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...Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only a matter of time" Dees argues, "before the unfit, untrained, unsupervised members of the security force attacked someone they thought was the 'enemy' in the 'war' with the Jews...
CHARGED. EX-INDONESIAN PRESIDENT SUHARTO, 79, ailing political strongman now under house arrest; with embezzling up to $570 million from state coffers; in Jakarta. Suharto's lawyers claim he's mentally unfit to stand trial...
...because "that is the age when youngsters start to crystallize their values," says my father. Though he is a Democrat, his idea sounds a little like the one uttered years ago by Republican Newt Gingrich. Gingrich proposed bringing back state-run orphanages to rescue at-risk children from unfit mothers. My dad admits the similarity between his idea and Newt's and doesn't apologize for it. "If it takes a fortress to develop youngsters into positive, confident, thinking young men and women, then why not?" he asks. It's a compelling idea, but there are problems with it. What...
...over Pinochet's fate," says McGirk. His best hopes, once again, are the doctors, since the Chilean judges' decision rests on the proviso that he be examined to establish his fitness to stand trial. But given the fact that Chile has a much higher threshold for ruling a suspect unfit to stand trial, General Pinochet may find that he'd have been better off remaining in Britain...
...Community Development Center. "What was the rush?" Meanwhile, the boy's paternal grandparents have applied for U.S. visas to claim him. His mother is now the most scorned woman in Thailand. After saying she knew nothing of the smuggling, Tabtim Kaewtaengjan tearily confessed to reporters that she was an unfit mother. Her son, it turns out, had been used twice before on smuggling trips. In L.A., at first, "he was sick and scared. He would sleep 45 minutes at a time and wouldn't let us turn the lights off," says Jennifer Stanger of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery...