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A President's Murder Shadows Chilean Elections

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Dec. 13, 2009
A dictator's henchmen fatally poisons a former president in Chile. It sounds like the storyline from a political thriller, except it's true. Authorities say Augusto Pinochet's regime administered poison to former president Eduardo Frei during a hospital visit in 1981. He died weeks later, the...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic