The courts are also getting drawn into the examination of the past, with the attorney general ordering that a series of new inquests be held into controversial deaths.

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Mr Habibie has tried to head off demands for a commercial witch-hunt by ordering a more general inquiry into corruption, headed by the attorney-general's office.

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It was Mr Simelane who, as director-general of the justice ministry, drafted a letter ordering Vusi Pikoli, the then NPA boss, to drop his prosecution of Jackie Selebi, the police chief, on corruption charges.

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The panel also found that 41 of the 96 who had died had had the "potential to survive", and the attorney general last week asked the High Court to consider ordering fresh inquests into the deaths.

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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said the boy's father speaks for the boy, ordering Elian returned to his homeland.

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