Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 12, 1994 TAG: 9405120185
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A11 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA LENGTH: Medium
Priebke, who has admitted participating in a 1944 Nazi massacre of 335 Italian civilians outside Rome, is under house arrest in Bariloche, 1,100 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.
Menem said Priebke ``is a war criminal who unfortunately wasn't detected until now.''
Italian prosecutors signed an order Monday seeking Priebke's extradition.
Priebke, 80, has lived more than four decades under his own name in Bariloche, a town of 80,000 people in the Andean foothills. He is the president of a local German-Argentine cultural association.
Priebke escaped from a prison camp in Italy in 1946. He says he was absolved by a British tribunal after the war and therefore never feared capture. That claim could not be verified by British authorities.
- Associated Press
Mexico to hold 1st presidential debate
MEXICO CITY - The first presidential debate in Mexico's history takes place tonight, and political analysts see it as a watershed in a year of historic change
``The debate is important because it's the first time the PRI has taken the opposition seriously enough to debate with them,'' said John Bailey, a Mexico expert at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which has ruled Mexico for 65 years, often through vote fraud, is under unprecedented pressure to hold fair elections. The government has agreed to several changes to the election laws to guard against a tainted result.
Facing a stronger challenge from opposition parties than ever before, the PRI could be forced out after the Aug. 21 election.
The debate will include the three top candidates: Ernesto Zedillo of the PRI, Cuautemoc Cardenas of the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party and Diego Fernandez de Cevallos from the conservative National Action Party.
It will bring the candidates into the homes of millions who have not had a chance to see the lower-profile Cevallos and Cardenas.
- Cox News Service
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