They later divorced.Announcing Mr Salinas’s arrest, special prosecutor Pablo Chapa Bezanilla gave no motive, but investigators had previously said the assassination appeared to be a plot by the PRI’s “dinosaurs”, or old guard. As secretary- general, Ruiz Massieu was the party’s number two and a member of its reformist wing, those who believed it would have to open up to real democracy and end its Soviet-like control of all sectors of society in order to survive. It also threatened to embarrass President Bill Clinton over his recent support for a PRI government mistrusted and despised by an increasing number of Mexicans.Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly masterminding the assassination in September of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu in Mexico City. It also undoubtedly damaged Carlos Salinas’s bid for the coveted leadership of the new World Trade Organisation (WTO), although the White House said yesterday it still backed him. The man said he was in love with the cow, recited marriage vows in court, and pledged to be faithful to the animal during his stay in jail A. FROM PHIL DAVISON

in Miami
The detention of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas’s elder brother Raul, charged with ordering and financing the murder of the secretary- general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), could be the last straw for the PRI’s unbroken 65-year grip on power, many political analysts and intellectuals believe.Tuesday’s arrest of Raul Salinas, 48, a lifetime PRI member and one of Mexico’s wealthiest and best-known businessmen, stunned a nation already reeling from political and economic crisis and an anti-PRI guerrilla uprising in the south.

Zimbabwean’s beef fling

Harare – A man who had sex with a cow because he was afraid of contracting Aids from a human partner has been jailed for nine months by a Zimbabwe court. Cairo accused of jail abuses

Cairo – Egyptian authorities have been holding more than 800 Islamist prisoners incommunicado for over 14 months, forbidding visits by family and lawyers, the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights said yesterday.. Salamat Masih, 14, and Rehmat Masih, 40, reached Germany on Sunday, one day after they were released from jail in Lahore.. Mother may admit killing sons

Union, South Carolina – A woman accused of drowning her two young sons after claiming they had been abducted by a carjacker may plead guilty but mentally ill or innocent by reason of insanity, her lawyers said yesterday.. Family gives shelter

Frankfurt – Two Christians who fled Pakistan after their death sentences were overturned in a blasphemy case are in hiding with a family in Germany, spokesmen for a Catholic aid agency said yesterday. Nazi war criminal gets off

Bonn – Germany’s highest criminal court ruled yesterday that Wolfgang Lehnigk-Emden, 72, who massacred 22 civilians in Italy as a Nazi army lieutenant in 1943, cannot be tried because the statute of limitations has expired..

Ceasefire signed in jungle war

Montevideo – Peru and Ecuador signed a new ceasefire yesterday in the Uruguayan capital which will allow the presence of observers in the jungle border conflict zone from 8 March and the eventual withdrawal of troops.. Imelda to run for Congress

Manila – Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos, ousted with her husband in 1986 and convicted of corruption in 1993, launched a political comeback attempt yesterday by declaring her candidacy for the Congress.. ussian journalist shot dead

Moscow – Vladislav Listyev, executive director of Russia’s main Ostankino television channel, was shot dead yesterday, NTV independent television reported. Mr Listyev, one of Russia’s most prominent television journalists, was recently appointed executive director of the channel after President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree to transform it into a public company. Mr Listyev was one of the founders of the hard-hitting Vzglyad current-affairs programme in the early days of glasnost under former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reute. The genocide last year targeted both minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.. “This is the reality of Rwanda; graves with so many bodies we can only only count the skulls,” said the Rwanda army’s chief political commissar, Colonel Frank Mugambage.