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Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...
...approximately 5:15 p.m. last Thursday, the victim attempted to separate two men fighting in the sunken area between the Out of Town News newsstand and the T entrance. One of the men then pulled a machete out of his backpack and struck the victim on the left shoulder...
Cambridge Police were called to the scene and the victim was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was later released...
...victim was treated for injury to the shoulder and released from the hospital earlier this evening...
...Still, others contend the SOFA treaty does not hinder investigations to the extent antimilitary activists and the South Korean media claim. "We've always had jurisdiction over these kinds of crimes when the victim is Korean," says Oh, the prosecution's spokesman. "We've only had a few restrictions on procedural matters, which is not a big deal." Indeed, supporters point out that the terms of the treaty are far more favorable to South Korea than, for example, the terms of a similar treaty Japan signed with the U.S. in 1960. In that country, the U.S. military can hold suspected...