the purpose of stem cell research.
■ Mexico
Ex-spy chief arrested
A former director of the domestic spy agency who faces kidnapping charges returned home on Sunday
to Mexico City, where he
was under house arrest,
the federal attorney general's office said. Miguel Nazar Haro, who directed the
now-dissolved Federal Security Directorate from 1978 to 1982, was arrested
in Feb-ruary and jailed in Monterrey in connection with the 1975 kidnapping
of Jesus Piedra Ibarra, an alleged guerrilla activist
who disappeared after his abduction. Nazar Haro, 80, now faces kidnapping charges in Mexico state
in the disappearance of Ignacio Salas Obregon, a founder of a rebel group..
■ United States
Ebersol in plane crash
A charter plane carrying NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol crashed and burst into flames during takeoff from Montrose Regional Airport in southwest Colorado on Sunday, killing the pilot and co-pilot and seriously injuring Ebersol and one of his sons. Rescue crews are still looking for
14-year old Edward Ebersol. Dick Ebersol, 57, and son Charles, a college senior, survived the crash. The cockpit had been ripped off by the force of the crash.
■ Germany
Abusive officers targeted
Defense Minister Peter Struck vowed to crack
down on army officers who had tortured recruits in training exercises and said he expects further cases of abuse to surface. In a series of interviews, Struck said he was distressed that recruits put through exercises to simulate torture by hostage-takers did not report the abuses sooner and urged
any soldiers who faced such "illegal orders" to come forward. "I want to put things in order. I want a clean Bundeswehr and I can only do that if these inci-dents are reported," Struck told German radio. He said that officers, especially trainers, who abuse soldiers will be thrown out of the army and face prosecution. Prosecutors are investigating one officer and 30 other soldiers over allegations recruits were subject to electric shocks at a base in Coesfeld.
■ Kenya
Decapitated corpse found
Kenyan police have arrested a Zambian man after a woman's decapitated body was found hidden under a bush in the coastal city of Mombasa. Jason Samhpar, 26, is suspected of conning the victim and other women out of hundreds of dollars with fraudulent offers of hotel jobs in Europe and the US. Police officials did not identify the dead woman, whose head had been thrown into a nearby well, butsaid officers were trying to trace her relatives.
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