Ex-Argentine leader on baby-snatching charges

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General Jorge Videla, who removed President Isabel Peron from power in Argentina's 1976 military coup, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1985 for mass murder, kidnapping and torture. He was pardoned and freed in 1990 by President Carlos Menem. However, he must now face trial on at least five specific cases of child abduction, and possibly many more. It is alleged that he was behind the abduction of babies from detained liberal women during the 'Dirty War' of 1976 to 1983.

Cases, Kidnapping, Abduction, Videla, Jorge

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TV agony aunt takes on macho Brazil

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Traditional male domination of politics and society in Brazil is being challenged by former television agony aunt Marta Suplicy, who is now an MP for the left-wing Workers' Party. She is likely to run for governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the country's most powerful state. She may not have much chance of winning, but she predicts that there will be a woman president in Brazil by 2006. She has a bourgeois image, but her feminism has boosted the standing of the Workers' Party.

Officials and employees, Women politicians, Workers' Party (Brazil), Suplicy, Marta

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Brazil's leader all at sea as economy sinks

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President of Brazil Itamar Franco, 62, a former senator who became acting president in Oct 1992, suffers from nervous ailments since his 91-year-old mother died and he broke up with his 34-year-old girl friend Lisle Heusi Lucena. His phones had been tapped before he succeeded Mr Collor. He has a third economics minister after the resignation of Paulo Haddad when Franco asked for a reduction in the 1,500 % annual rate of inflation.

Franco, Itamar

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