Archive for Thursday, November 24, 2005  Former Chilean
dictator indicted  November 24, 2005   Two days short of his
90th birthday, Gen. Augusto Pinochet was placed under house
arrest Wednesday at his Santiago mansion for alleged tax evasion
- not the thousands of deaths and disappearances for which
opponents have long tried to have him imprisoned.  Lawyers
pursuing the former dictator said the indictment on corruption
charges related to his multimillion-dollar overseas accounts
still was a major victory. Several relatives of the
dictatorship's victims cheered and embraced at the courthouse.
Pinochet's attorneys immediately appealed the ruling on grounds
of his ill health, the same factor that has blocked earlier
trials.  Pinochet was charged with evading $2.4 million in
taxes, using four false passports to open bank accounts abroad,
submitting a false government document to a foreign bank and
filing a false report on his assets.  But Judge Carlos Cerda
said Pinochet does not pose any danger at his age and c