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Santiago Chile?s armed forces admitted for the first time in 27 years that they executed about 150 political dissidents after General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew Salvador Allende Gossens? Marxist government in 1973, and then dumped the bodies into the Pacific Ocean, lakes and rivers. They also acknowledged that another 50 people were buried in clandestine graves throughout the country. The armed forces agreed in mid-1999 to produce information on the fate of more than 1,000 ?detained-disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted...
...face of an almost entirely middle-class insurrection. But for most, the tales of Estrada's gambling kickbacks and underworld connections that emerged during his impeachment had shattered his election promise to end corruption, and they simply stood passively by as the generals and bishops, politicians, businessmen and students overthrew...
...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...
Over 250 people died in the violence following the presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire on October 22. The unrest began when Gen. Robert Guei, leader of a coup that overthrew the government on Christmas Eve in 1999, declared himself the winner and dissolved the election commission just as exit polls indicated that Laurent Gbagbo of the Popular Front opposition party was leading. Hundreds of Ivorians took to the streets in a mass uprising that rivaled that of the Yugoslavs against Slobodan Milosevic. Military support for Guei was weak and eventually he fled the country, leaving Gbagbo to declare victory...
...only took one play for Dartmouth to give the ball right back. Mann dropped back on first down and overthrew a wide-open receiver. The ball settled into the arms of freshman cornerback Benny Butler, who returned the ball three yards to the Dartmouth...