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Speaking at the Harvard Faculty Club courtesy of the Pan American Society of New England, Ambassador Jose Barros offered a two-pronged defense. He first reproduced the essence of the Chilean Foreign Ministry's position on the Court's behavior. In refusing the extradition request, Ambassador Barros said, the Chilean Supreme Court behaved as an independent judicial body. Ambassador Barros then provided a desparaging view of the U.S. response to the Court's action. His comments unmistakably characterized official U.S. displeasure as impatient, fundamentally disrespectful of due process, and impolitic...
...independent institution is implausible. The most important of these, is the Chilean judiciary's status under the current regime. A brief review of the Chilean judiciary's history from September 11, 1973, the date of the military coup against the Unidad Popular government, to the formal U.S. request for extradition in September 1978, plainly shows that during these five years the Chilean judiciary led only the most fugitive kind of institutional existence...
Therefore, when the U.S. Dept. of Justice filed its extradition request in September 1978 Chile's "state of emergency" still governed the regime's judicial processes. Under these conditions, Decree Law 1877 held even minimally defining characteristics of an independent judiciary hostage to the military executive's will. Contrary to the thrust of Ambassador Barros' remarks at the faculty club, it is impossible to regard the Chilean judiciary as an independent institution at the inception of the adjudicatory process which it supervised...
Deterring those nightmares has dominated U.S. diplomacy and military decisions. The Carter Administration persuaded Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to stop letting Iraqi warplanes use Saudi airfields, since such complicity might provoke Iranian reprisals. But the Saudis feared they might be attacked by Iran anyway. At their request, the U.S. dispatched four highly sophisticated airborne warning planes, two tankers for mid-air refueling, a ground radar network and 436 U.S. military personnel to fly and operate all that equipment...
...future, any law enforcement official seeking materials from a publication must issue a subpoena specifying the items sought. If the request seems unreasonable to the subpoenaed party, it may go to court to challenge the move. These safeguards, however, do not exist in certain situations outlined in the new law. For example, if a reporter is actually a suspect, then police may arrive unannounced...