Foreign Desk
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Chavez Anticipates Crushing Election Win
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Chavez sought another six-year term yesterday in an election that weighed the popularity of his oil-funded handouts to the poor against fears of increasingly authoritarian rule by one of the Bush administration’s most outspoken overseas opponents. Mr. Chavez anticipated a crushing victory over tough-talking political veteran Manuel Rosales who has galvanized the opposition by promising to unseat a man whom he accuses of edging the country toward totalitarianism.
— Associated Press
General Pinochet, 91, Fighting for Life
SANTIAGO, Chile — General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings and widespread torture, was fighting for his life in a Chilean hospital yesterday after suffering a heart attack. But doctors said his condition was improving after an emergency procedure to restore blood flow to his heart. Doctors initially said they planned bypass surgery yesterday on the 91-year-old former strongman, but they later ruled it out.
— Associated Press
West Bank Dig Uncovers One of the First Churches
SHILOH, West Bank — Archaeologists claim to have uncovered one of the world’s first churches, built on a site believed to have once housed the Ark of the Covenant. The site, emerging from the soil in a few acres in the hills of the West Bank, is richly decorated with brightly colored mosaics and inscriptions referring to Jesus Christ. According to the team, led byYitzhak Magen and Yevgeny Aharonovitch, the church dates to the late 4th century, making it one of Christianity’s first formal places of worship.
— The Daily Telegraph
Islamic Militant Is Warned Of CIA Agents in Norway
OSLO, Norway — An Islamic militant living in Oslo, Mullah Krekar, received a warning from an anonymous Norwegian official, according to Krekar’s lawyer. The message: Mr. Krekar, then head of a Kurdish insurgent group, was a CIA target and should watch his back. If the CIA was planning to abduct Mr. Krekar, those plans were quietly abandoned.
— The Washington Post
