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THE WEEK, Page 23WORLDEt Cetera
GOOD RIDDANCE
Andrei Chikatilo, the Russian serial sex killer, was
sentenced to death by shooting in the city of Rostov-on-Don,
convicted of the brutal murders of 52 women and children during a
12-year rampage through southern Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
The prosecution presented chilling evidence of how the quiet,
bespectacled former schoolteacher smashed his victims' eardrums,
gouged out their eyes and then feasted on their sexual organs.
As the sentence was read out, the courtroom erupted in turmoil,
with one mother yelling, "Give him to us! Let us have him!"
SORRY WAS NOT ENOUGH
Shin Kanemaru, 78, was the Mr. Big of Japanese politics, the
man whose backstage maneuvering made several Prime Ministers,
including the current one, Kiichi Miyazawa. Kanemaru thought he
could slide through scandal with a public apology at a press
conference and a small fine for accepting a $4 million illegal
campaign contribution. But the Japanese public, stirred by the
arrogance of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power
brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests
within his party, in business circles and in the press finally
forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet and as chief of
his faction, throwing the ruling party into disarray. Said he:
"It was Shin Kanemaru who was wrong. There are no other bad
guys."