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- <text id=90TT1000>
- <title>
- Apr. 23, 1990: American Notes:Assassinations
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 23, 1990 Dan Quayle:No Joke
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- ASSASSINATIONS
- A Man Who Didn't Hide
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> After a remote-control bomb killed Chilean exile leader
- Orlando Letelier and an American aide as they drove through
- Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, U.S. officials charged that
- henchmen of Chile's then ruling General Augusto Pinochet had
- plotted the murders. Four men indicted for the slayings escaped
- capture or were untouchable in Chile.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the FBI finally caught up with Jose Suarez, 51,
- who is suspected by federal prosecutors of following Letelier in
- a car from which the bomb was detonated. The Cuban American was
- arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had been living under his
- real name for at least two years. A local policewoman identified
- Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the
- elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or
- prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking
- secret-police officers accused of masterminding the
- assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military aid to
- Chile.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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