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And the LAT also offers more specific details of the protests: 10,000 demonstrators assembled; 15 injured and 20 detained by police.
The NYT reports that immediately after last summer's terrorist bombing of two American embassies in Africa, the government of Sudan detained two suspects, only to angrily release them after the U.S. conducted a cruise missile strike against an alleged chemical weapons facility in Sudan.
Yet despite that, "our country, having allowed Pinochet to enter its borders for medical treatment, has now detained him in order to comply with a case brought by the Spanish Communist Party."
Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.
There have been a handful of high-profile cases in which indigenous workers were charged with crimes in Oregon and detained for lengthy periods due to communication barriers.