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News Page 8A THE BATTALION iy, Sepiembc Peru files charges against Fujimori LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s attorney general filed homicide charges against disgraced ex- President Alberto Fujimori Wednesday, linking him to two massacres by paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s, a statement said. Peru hopes the charges will pave the way for Fujimori’s eventual extradition from Japan, where he is in exile. Prosecutors allege that while serving as president Fujimori “co-authored” the killings and “knew in detail the operations” of the death squad known as the Colina Group, the attorney gen eral’s office statement said. The Colina Group is accused of gunning down 15 people in 1991 during a barbecue at a Lima tenement building. Group members were also linked to the kidnapping and murder of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University in 1992. Prosecutors are also charging that Fujimori had knowledge of the killing of former intelligence agent Mariela Barreto, whose dismembered and decapitated body was found in March 1997, the statement said. Congress paved the way for the charges Aug. 27 by lifting the constitutional immunity of Fujimori, who has been in his parents’ native Japan since November when his 10-year rule collapsed in a growing cor ruption scandal. The homicide and forced dis appearance charges, which Peruvian officials say constitute crimes against humanity, are the most serious to date against Fujimori. Fujimori also faces charges of abandonment of office and dereliction of duty, which carry a maximum two-year prison sentence. He denies any wrong doing and claims he is the sub ject of “vulgar political persecu tion” in Peru. Japan announced Fujimori was entitled to citizenship short ly after he arrived there, and Japanese law prohibits the extra dition of its citizens. Though Peru hopes the new charges will facilitate extradi tion, Japanese Foreign Ministry reiterated Thursday after the Peruvian announce ment that charges were file that Japan's government sti opposes such a move. Peru's Justice Ministi Fernando Olivera called Japan position “unacceptable” ar said his government is preparii for a “judicial battle” to secu Fujimori’s extradition to Peru. Under its own laws, Pe cannot make an extraditu request until a Supreme Cm judge formally accepts t charges against Fujimori a opens investigative proceed in] The court has 15 days to do th In his “From Toky< Website, which he launched July to defend himself. Fujirm has brushed off the homier charges for lacking proof ai credible witnesses. Credit card deiup^ continues to ris WASHINGTON The nation’s com me wrote off S2.8 billio in L&t’s Go Oivt Thursdays Uv |*WELCOME BACK STUDENTS^ ; m#FAEE b AC els i Tk& Battalions ‘ “Long John : Silvers 3224 S. 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Ma Bui t he panel’s s: ijority Di e mdc i at. R ep. John Spf- ( '< R- fexas. Sc null ' Cai ■oli ina, said the imnnttee su rplus pn >je< - tions have ms ne me i, K- di fficult U werhaul Mee out for a an d S oci al Security, th c c cono- de fense . farm and school s[ nr nents to ill: g, and pu rsue other items 1 le me asure Oil t catii ng int o Social Seen: pit al gains su rpliist 1 ; autl lority “We ’ve gc it to get past (i e ove :rseas an d recc >gn ize ■ we've got a[ The divergent timetables for action between Bush and con gressional Republicans is fueled by the differing political needs of the two. GOP lawmakers face November 2002 elections for control of Congress in which they want to be seen as having tried mightily to revive the econ omy. Bush, nurturing his image as a compassionate Republican for his 2004 re-election bid, has so far distanced himself from a capital gains tax reduction, criti cized by Democrats as an expen sive boon to the rich. A confrontation between con gressional Republicans and Bush is not in the offing. GOP lawmakers think they could win points by pushing an economic package this fall if either the Democratic-control led Senate lem,” Spratt told Daniels. Both parties have pled# not spend any parts of S< Security’s surpluses for thing but debt reduction. White House projected month that would not hap : though it conceded the ntf was just a few billion do out of a $2 trillion budget. But the non pan. Congressional Budget 0‘ said that $9 billion of thelj jected $162 billion S(4 Security surplus would bee ed in fiscal 2001. which f Sept. 30, and the budget w come within $2 billion ofd f it again next year too. Using small amountsofStf Security’s surplus would hav? significant effect on the ra gram’s solvency. But eachf would be happy to blame other for violating its promise 0