Miguel Nazar Haro

The former head of Mexico's secret police was ordered to face a second "dirty war" trial, the latest victory for prosecutors working to punish state atrocities committed against leftists. A federal judge found enough evidence to try Miguel Nazar Haro in the 1974 disappearance of a Communist rebel leader. Last week, another judge ordered Nazar Haro, 79, tried in the 1975 kidnapping of an urban rebel who was never seen again.

Dick Kniss Bass player with Peter, Paul and Mary Dick Kniss, 74, who played stand-up bass with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," died Wednesday of pulmonary disease at a hospital near his home in Saugerties, N.Y, said his wife, Diane. Born in 1937 in Portland, Ore., Kniss was playing in a band led by Woody Herman in New York City before joining Peter, Paul and Mary in 1964. He performed with them throughout the 1960s, rejoined them when they reunited in 1978 and continued to give concerts with them until 2009, the year Mary Travers died . Kniss — pronounced k-nish — was "our intrepid bass player for almost as long as we performed together," the trio's Peter Yarrow said in a statement.

Mexico on Wednesday arrested a former police chief accused in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young revolutionary, the first arrest in an investigation of state atrocities committed three decades ago. Miguel Nazar Haro, named by survivors as a notorious inquisitor in the so-called dirty war, was arrested while driving in Mexico City with his wife and daughter, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Atty. Gen.

Kazimierz Smolen Headed Auschwitz museum at death camp site Kazimierz Smolen, 91, an Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of a memorial museum at the site, died Friday on the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp. He died in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. Soviet troops liberated the camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

A defense lawyer in the Enrique Camarena murder trial attempted to ask a key prosecution witness Thursday whether he knew of any ties between major Mexican drug traffickers and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency but a federal judge prohibited the witness from answering. Attorney Mary Kelly's question came during cross-examination of Laurence Victor Harrison, a government-paid witness who had extensive dealings with both Mexican law enforcement and drug traffickers.

The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a major boost to the government's efforts to bring so-called dirty-war criminals to justice by ruling that there was no statute of limitations on prosecuting those believed responsible for the kidnappings and disappearances of leftists in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Late last year, the cop who once managed Mexico's "dirty war" dyed his hair and grew a mustache. As hundreds of leftist militants had done, fearing death at the hands of his secret police, he went into hiding, guarding his secrets. On Wednesday night, federal agents finally captured Miguel Nazar Haro, making him the first former official to be arrested in any of the disappearances of 532 prisoners listed as missing in the 1970s and early '80s.

Responding to pressure from opposition political parties and human rights groups, Mexico's government has accepted the resignation of the capital's police intelligence chief Miguel Nazar Haro--a fugitive from U.S. justice--and announced an amnesty that recognizes the existence of political prisoners in Mexico.

Kazimierz Smolen Headed Auschwitz museum at death camp site Kazimierz Smolen, 91, an Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of a memorial museum at the site, died Friday on the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp. He died in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. Soviet troops liberated the camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

Dick Kniss Bass player with Peter, Paul and Mary Dick Kniss, 74, who played stand-up bass with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," died Wednesday of pulmonary disease at a hospital near his home in Saugerties, N.Y, said his wife, Diane. Born in 1937 in Portland, Ore., Kniss was playing in a band led by Woody Herman in New York City before joining Peter, Paul and Mary in 1964. He performed with them throughout the 1960s, rejoined them when they reunited in 1978 and continued to give concerts with them until 2009, the year Mary Travers died . Kniss — pronounced k-nish — was "our intrepid bass player for almost as long as we performed together," the trio's Peter Yarrow said in a statement.

The former head of Mexico's secret police was ordered to face a second "dirty war" trial, the latest victory for prosecutors working to punish state atrocities committed against leftists. A federal judge found enough evidence to try Miguel Nazar Haro in the 1974 disappearance of a Communist rebel leader. Last week, another judge ordered Nazar Haro, 79, tried in the 1975 kidnapping of an urban rebel who was never seen again.

Late last year, the cop who once managed Mexico's "dirty war" dyed his hair and grew a mustache. As hundreds of leftist militants had done, fearing death at the hands of his secret police, he went into hiding, guarding his secrets. On Wednesday night, federal agents finally captured Miguel Nazar Haro, making him the first former official to be arrested in any of the disappearances of 532 prisoners listed as missing in the 1970s and early '80s.

Mexico on Wednesday arrested a former police chief accused in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young revolutionary, the first arrest in an investigation of state atrocities committed three decades ago. Miguel Nazar Haro, named by survivors as a notorious inquisitor in the so-called dirty war, was arrested while driving in Mexico City with his wife and daughter, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Atty. Gen.

The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a major boost to the government's efforts to bring so-called dirty-war criminals to justice by ruling that there was no statute of limitations on prosecuting those believed responsible for the kidnappings and disappearances of leftists in the 1970s and early 1980s.

A defense lawyer in the Enrique Camarena murder trial attempted to ask a key prosecution witness Thursday whether he knew of any ties between major Mexican drug traffickers and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency but a federal judge prohibited the witness from answering. Attorney Mary Kelly's question came during cross-examination of Laurence Victor Harrison, a government-paid witness who had extensive dealings with both Mexican law enforcement and drug traffickers.

Responding to pressure from opposition political parties and human rights groups, Mexico's government has accepted the resignation of the capital's police intelligence chief Miguel Nazar Haro--a fugitive from U.S. justice--and announced an amnesty that recognizes the existence of political prisoners in Mexico.

The head of Mexico City's police intelligence branch, accused by opposition groups of torturing prisoners during the 1970s and under U.S. indictment, has resigned his post, a City Hall spokesman said today. He said Miguel Nazar Haro, director of the newly created intelligence services of the city police force, tendered his resignation after just over two months in the job.

Prosecutors called Mexico's former domestic spy chief in for questioning Thursday over allegations that he tortured detainees during a government campaign against leftist activists in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Miguel Nazar Haro also is accused of being involved with a secret police unit that massacred dozens of student protesters in 1968. He was director of the Federal Security Directorate from 1978 to 1982 and assistant director for several years before that. The agency no longer exists.