“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsJ of tjje tCimes;rnVol. 1 No. 1 January 1999rnPoor Augusto Pinochet! Try to imaginernFidel Castro flying to England on privaternbusiness and getting arrested for allegedrncrimes against humanity. Withinrnhours, every talking head on this planetrnwould be up in arms, demanding Britishrnblood and Castro’s freedom.rnIt hardly needs stating that Fidelrnwould be better suited to incarceration atrnHer Majesty’s pleasure than Pinochet. ElrnJeffe’s 40 years of misrule have broughtrnuntold misery and suffering to millions ofrnCubans. La Revolucion also meant therndeaths of thousands of political opponents,rnand tens of thousands of ruinedrnlives. While Pinochet paved the way forrnChile’s transition to the democracy it isrntoday, after four decades of dictatorship,rnCastro shows no sign of mellowing.rnClive Nicholls, the Queen’s Counselrnrepresenting Pinochet, warned that the denialrnof his immunity will open up thernprospect of the Queen being extraditedrnfrom a third country to Argentina to standrntrial for the murder of Argentinean POWsrnby British forces in the Falklands, or tornIreland for the murder of Irish citizens byrnthe British Secret Service in Gibraltar.rnBut “international morality” is a decidedlyrnone-edged sword. Jiang Zemin,rnthe president of China and the architect ofrnthe Tiananmen Square massacre, mayrnsafely come to the United States; MuammarrnQaddafi may not. (No civilized personrnwould want either of those two gentlemenrnat his dinner table, but that is notrnthe point.) If Serbs and Croats want to secedernfrom Bosnia, it is definitely not on;rnbut if Albanians want to secede from Serbia,rnthat is a different story. If Serbs try tornstop them, NATO bombers start revvingrntheir engines.rnThat trigger-happy alhance includesrnTurkey, and in a non-relativistic schemernof things, NATO should be prepared tornbomb its own members. According to anrnAssociated Press report (October 25),rnTurkeyrni s in i t s 15th year of arnfight against Kurdish rebelsrnseeking autonomy in southeasternrnTurkey. Some 37,000rnpeople have died in thernstruggle.rnThirty-seven thousand dead? That’s 37rn”Kosovos” so far, year in, year out, sincernthose distant days when Reagan was inrnhis first term, and Bill Gates was yet tornmake his first billion.rnSpeaking of Kosovo, public televisionrnviewers may have noticed that Jim Lehrerrnon News Hour (October 2), respondedrn”What’s wrong with that?” to SenatorrnWarner’s concern that the remainingrnSerbs in Kosovo would be wiped out ifrnthe Albanians take over. It would be interestingrnto observe the fallout if Lehrerrnexpressed similar sentiments about thernsettlers on the West Bank—should Mr.rnArafat ever be allowed to take back thatrnpiece of real estate.rnBy way of a modest consolation,rnSerbs will be gratified to learn from thernAgence France Presse (October 10) that arndelegation from France’s National Frontrn(FN) went to Kosovo “to support Serbiarnin its showdown with NATO alUes.” FNrndeputy vice president Jacques Dore expressedrnthe Front’s support for Serbia’srn”just struggle to safeguard its nationalrnidentity.”rnWe’ve known all along that thosernLePenists are sturdy fellows, but that factrnis now clear to none other than Charles dernGaulle. According to a report in the Timesrnof London (October 24), the eldest grandsonrnand namesake of Le General said hernwas willing to stand for the FN in the Europeanrnparliamentary elections in Junern1999. M. de Gaulle, who is already a Euroskepticrnmember of the European Parliament,rnbelieves that Jean-Marie Le Pen’srnpeople better represent the ideals of hisrngrandfather than does the wishy-washyrnGauUist Party that bears his name. Withrnthe mainstream right in disarray, the presencernof M. de Gaulle on its slate would berna coup for the FN, which already commandsrn15 percent of the national vote.rnAt the opposite end of the Europeanrnpolitical spectrum, another illustriousrngrandson—that of Leonid Brezhnev—rncongratulated Massimo D’Alema ofrnItaly’s Democratic Party of the Left (formerlyrnknown as the Communist Party) onrnhis recent appointment. While Le Pen’srnelevation to a position of power in Francernwould prompt our ruUng eUtes to boycottrnclaret and Roquefort, the Corriere dellarnsera reports that Clinton press flack JoernLockhart has declared that the WhiternHouse “will be happy to work in closerncontact” with the new government inrnRome headed by D’Alema.rnLike its predecessors, the new Italianrnministry is gung-ho for Europe, but thernEurophoric camp is not as monolithic as itrnused to be. As 1998 drew to an end, thernFrench were trying to put the best spin onrnthe embarrassing refusal of new GermanrnChancellor Gerhard Schroeder to takernpart in a joint celebration of the end ofrnWorld War I on November 8. For years,rnex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl and hisrnFrench colleagues marked this anniversaryrnwith joint Franco-German ceremoniesrnnear Aachen, on the Franco-Germanrnborder, and at Vrigne-Meuse in thernArdennes, the last place where Frenchrnand German soldiers died in the GreatrnWar. But Schroeder told French PresidentrnJacques Chirac that he would not takernpart, and he ruled out any German participation,rnnow or in the future. He indicatedrnthat he was not bound by Kohl’s earUerrnacceptance of the invitation to thisrnyear’s event.rnSchroeder said he wanted “a new Germanyrnthat presented a new face to thernworld and not one of guilt.” Le Mondernand Liberation warn that Schroeder’s decisionrnhas added to growing French concernsrnthat, under Schroeder’s coalitionrngovernment, Germany has turned awayrnfrom France.rnBack home, amidst the media blitzrnthat accompanied the release in Decemberrnof the new $70 million animated feature.rnPrince of Egypt, an interesting detailrnfrom the history of this masterpiece ofrnpopular culture went unnoticed. Beforernthe final version was completed, DreamWorksrnSKG—the movie studio formedrnby Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg,rn24/CHRONICLESrnrnrn