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...book is also Kaczynski's counterattack against his brother David. It was David, of course, who turned Ted in, at the urging of his wife, Linda Patrik, the woman who had come between them years earlier. After Ted's arrest, David was instantly lauded as a sort of moral superhero for sacrificing his beloved if troubled brother. Not surprisingly, Ted finds fault with this scenario. David's decision to turn him in, he says, was less a moral or lawful one than a way to settle a perversely complicated sibling rivalry. Beneath David's love for him, he argues...
Chavunduka and Choto have filed suit against several members of the government for damages from illegal arrest and torture, including $50,000 in compensation...
Since news of the arrest and torture became public, journalists and humanitarian organizations across the world have rallied behind Choto and Chavunduka...
Dismissed, said the prime minister to the general. But within hours, the general had repaid the compliment, and Pakistan was back under military rule after an 11-year democratic interlude. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif found himself under house arrest Tuesday after military units surrounded his residence and took control of key facilities all over the country. The coup followed Nawaz?s decision earlier in the day to fire armed forces chief General Parvez Musharaf. "The conflict between the generals and Nawaz dates back to the prime minister?s decision in the summer, under pressure from Washington, to order his army...
...American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction of the documents it should have and, despite a high priority...