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- THE WEEK, Page 23WORLDEt Cetera
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- GOOD RIDDANCE
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- Andrei Chikatilo, the Russian serial sex killer, was
- sentenced to death by shooting in the city of Rostov-on-Don,
- convicted of the brutal murders of 52 women and children during a
- 12-year rampage through southern Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
- The prosecution presented chilling evidence of how the quiet,
- bespectacled former schoolteacher smashed his victims' eardrums,
- gouged out their eyes and then feasted on their sexual organs.
- As the sentence was read out, the courtroom erupted in turmoil,
- with one mother yelling, "Give him to us! Let us have him!"
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- SORRY WAS NOT ENOUGH
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- Shin Kanemaru, 78, was the Mr. Big of Japanese politics, the
- man whose backstage maneuvering made several Prime Ministers,
- including the current one, Kiichi Miyazawa. Kanemaru thought he
- could slide through scandal with a public apology at a press
- conference and a small fine for accepting a $4 million illegal
- campaign contribution. But the Japanese public, stirred by the
- arrogance of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power
- brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests
- within his party, in business circles and in the press finally
- forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet and as chief of
- his faction, throwing the ruling party into disarray. Said he:
- "It was Shin Kanemaru who was wrong. There are no other bad
- guys."
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