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CARACAS, Venezuela - The wife of former Venezuelan leader Carlos Andres Perez ridiculed an attempt to extradite her husband from the United States, saying Friday that President Hugo Chavez is attempting to create a spectacle for political ends.

Book: \"Himalayan Wonderland, Travels in Lahaul and Spiti\"; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Author: Manohar Singh Gill (union sports minister); Price: Rs.599 In the summer of 1962, a restless young Indian administrator, Manohar Singh Gill, made an arduous journey from the north Indian plains to the farthest reaches of Indian Himalayas - the Lahaul and Spiti Valley - and spent a year living and working with the people there.