> [Perhaps there should be a retirement home on St Helena for people like
> him, Kohl, Yeltsin, Milosevic, Karadic ... (too late for Arkan).]
iirc, garcia-marquez even described how it could be decorated in _the autumn of the patriarch_.
> Interestingly Pinochet long resisted his lawyers trying to get him off on
> health grounds. Now he has to suffer the humiliation of speculation that he
> is either demented or lying.
haven't people been speculating that for decades? the obvious difference is that now it's an either/or, whereas when he was in power it was a both/and proposition. well, and also now it is The Establishment doing the speculating instead of his ene- mies.
so now he joins the ranks of clark clifford ('venal or stupid') and ted kaczynski (insane/political).
cheers, t