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...scandal. Koreans nervously laughed off the finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials and politicians close to the President. Yeo Un Hwan, the mobster who met the President's son, is now under arrest. Yeo allegedly tried to bribe politicians and prosecutors to help prominent businessman Lee Young Ho, now in jail on charges of embezzlement. A newly appointed special prosecutor started interrogating Lee and Yeo last month and is now quizzing prosecutors suspected of corruption. One lawmaker has dubbed the scandal "Gangstergate...
...ARRESTED. BENEDETTO SPERA, 60, member of the notorious Cosa Nostra clan and reputed right-hand man of Italy's most wanted Mafia fugitive, Bernardo Provenzano, for his alleged role in several high-profile murders; in Sicily. On the run for nine years, Spera had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the car-bomb murders of two prominent anti-Mafia judges in 1992; he was also implicated in several other murders. His arrest might have struck film-lovers as familiar: Spera was apprehended in a sting operation in the countryside near Corleone, the Italian setting of several scenes...
...Losers ABDURRAHMAN WAHID People Power III? Like Estrada, Indonesia's P.M. is losing allies and sliding toward impeachment AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE Quick, act sick! Judge puts Chile's ex-dictator under house arrest on murder and kidnap charges SEGA Dream-cast aside. Company to halt production of console. What's a hedgehog to do? Verbatim...
...three months after the June 1996 killing, police had no suspects in what they considered a burglary gone tragically awry. But Bosch had made a series of blunders that eventually led to her arrest. She had told her sister-in-law, Juliet Bosch, of her love for Tienie Wolmarans; she had given a gun to Juliet's husband after the murder and, three months later, she ordered a wedding dress. Juliet Bosch put the pieces together and turned the gun over to police, who linked it to 9-mm cartridges found at the murder scene. Wolmarans, who was investigated...
...direction of the White House and threatening to kill himself, had been shot by Secret Service agents. The alleged gunman, later identified as Robert Pickett of Evansville, Ind., was in surgery early Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University Hospital. At an afternoon press conference, held after the arrest, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer emphasized that the President had never been in danger. However, as Dickerson reports, four hours after the event D.C. was still swarming with cops...