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The leader and last remaining member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) - a group that committed politically motivated crimes in the United States in the 1970s - was arrested in Cape Town last Friday. James Kilgore, 55, who had been using the name Charles Pape, had been on the run from the FBI for the past 26 years. An article on the South African Independent Media Centre web site notes that Pape is the third international leftist arrested in South Africa over the past three months and threatened with deportation. "This is clearly part of a campaign by the ANC-IFP-NNP centre-right government to demonise internationals working alongside the emergent social movements and by doing so to demoralise the movements," the article said.