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Charles Ng, 37, the man accused of killing Kathleen Allen and 11 other victims, finally went on trial last week, more than 13 years after his arrest. Ng and Leonard Lake, both former Marines, are believed to have killed up to two dozen men, women and children during the mid-1980s after luring them to their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. They allegedly forced the women to become sex slaves and took scores of pornographic photographs and videotapes of them before killing them and burning the bodies...
...routine police raid of a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn turned into a riot as the customers resisted arrest and cornered the arresting officers in the bar, throwing bricks at them through the windows from the outside. Later in the same week, two demonstrations in front of the Stonewall turned into riots as police struggled to disperse them. Becoming Visible strives to both challenge the popular assumption that gay liberation was born with the Stonewall riots and to show the wide ranging effects of those riots on gay movements up to the present...
...just got chillier for Chile's patriarch. The Spanish government on Friday formalized its request to extradite General Augusto Pinochet, leaving the ex-dictator's fate in the hands of Britain's House of Lords. The bewigged Law Lords will next week rule on the legality of Pinochet's arrest by British police. If they uphold it, he could be headed for a long holiday in Spain...
...rural Putnam County along with his distinctive country twang. Early last week, though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
...Shinbet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part to pay for a mobile phone to facilitate contacts with Shinbet; and that his Shinbet handlers helped him travel to Jerusalem three times, during which he scouted targets. The Israelis claim that they had asked the Palestinian Authority to arrest Sarsour before his last crime; the P.A. says he was never on its list...