good news? (late follow up)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 23 09:24:28 PDT 1998


Carl Remick wrote:


>Yes, it would seem that Baroness Thatcher's tea companion will be going
>home, after all. Following is from today's Guardian:
>
>Straw signals Chile deal
>Pinochet may be sent home after Carey plea for mercy
>
>By Ewen MacAskill, David Pallister and Ian Black
>Friday October 23, 1998
>
>The Home Secretary, Jack Straw, hinted yesterday that the former Chilean
>dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, could be sent home on compassionate
>grounds after a plea by the Archbishop of Canterbury for a Christian
>approach.

Damn, I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the Spanish Inquisition. That's the kind of Christian approach that would be appropriate right now.

Doug



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