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...conspiracy charges against two former high-ranking Mexican officials: Manuel Ibarra Herrera, ex-director of the Federal Judicial Police -- the Mexican equivalent of the FBI -- and his cousin Miguel Aldana Ibarra, former commander of Operation Pacifico, the Federales' antidrug unit. The pair, two of 19 indicted in the case, were charged under a U.S. antiterrorism statute making it a crime to attack a U.S. official anywhere in the world. A trial is unlikely, however, since Mexico does not extradite its citizens...
BLIND FAITH (NBC, Feb. 11, 13, 9 p.m. EST). A man whose wife has been shot in their automobile later becomes the chief suspect in her murder. Any resemblance between this two-part docudrama, based on Joe McGinniss's book, and the Boston Stuart case is coincidental -- and lucky timing...
...were sacred. Gods inhabited them and took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...
Williams apologized for belittling Mother Teresa but stuck by his anti- monogamy stand. He plans to defy the bishop's request to cease all priestly activities until the case is settled. Says he: "If ((Spong)) wants to spend another quarter-million dollars, he can take me to trial." And speaking of trials, conservative Episcopalians are planning to file charges against Bishop Spong himself for ordaining an active...
...Hispanic groups, together with the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union, is challenging the white board members' monopoly in federal court. Their lawsuit charges that the five-man board intentionally gerrymandered election districts to keep Latinos out of office. Hispanic activists across the nation regard the case as a key part of their strategy for achieving "number power" -- political representation that is commensurate with the group's burgeoning population...