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...Melanie Griffith. For Bob (as his friends call him) and Melanie (who vacuumed topless in ?"Working Girl"), the world is one big meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here's Downey on the cover of ?Details discussing his hard road to recovery and sounding optimistic, several weeks prior to his arrest once again on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. Here's Griffith, detailing her recovery from "pain pills" in ?Melanie's Recovery Journal on her web site, melaniegriffith.com: ?"I feel so incredible! My energy level is awesome." Something is wrong...
...general's failing health and mental faculties got him off the hook after 18 months under house arrest in Britain, and few believe he'll actually get his day in court in Chile. Prosecuting him now may be more an exercise in stripping him of his respectability and shaming him for the crimes of his regime, for which he last week accepted political responsibility. It's also an expression of the independence of Chile's judiciary and a stress test for its reborn democracy...
...important to know that these signs aren't specific for a heart attack and may be caused by another condition. The classic case of mistaken identity is when a patient suffering from acute heartburn confuses a backflow of stomach acid with a developing cardiac arrest (although you should be wary of any "heartburn" that doesn't go away or gets worse as you walk around). Tension and injuries in the chest muscles can also be mistaken for angina...
...Less than a week after Pinochet issued a statement spun by his handlers as an acceptance of political responsibility for crimes committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign, a Chilean judge on Friday charged Pinochet with kidnapping. The general is expected to be placed under house arrest shortly, and to go to court to answer charges arising out of the 1973 "caravan of death" - the series of incidents in which some 70 political detainees were abducted while in captivity in the weeks following Pinochet's seizure of power, and were never seen again. Pinochet faces 177 criminal...
...umbrella immunity from prosecution for himself as one of his preconditions for handing over power to civilians, and it was widely assumed that the military that had ruled Chile at gunpoint for 17 years would not tolerate civilians putting their erstwhile leader on trial. Even when Pinochet was arrested in Britain in 1998 following an extradition request by a Spanish judge, the assumption was that the general would have to be tried in Europe because the Chilean authorities were either politically or legally unable to press charges. But the 18 months the strongman spent under house arrest in Britain...