Middle-aged now, the youths he had worked among might be able at least to find him something, if not employ him.

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There, at least, Mr Lavin's methods have worked: in 1996 he was re-elected as mayor with 78% of the votes, including those of some Concertacion sympathisers.

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Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.

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