Shortly before Tshabalala-Msimang, who had been ill for months, returned to work, she unleashed an attack, clearly aimed at her deputy, through the A.N.C. Web site, condemning those who were using her illness "as an opportunity to turn others into champions of a campaign to rid our government of the so-called H.I.V. and AIDS denial at the highest level".
Pro-Europe deputies pushed through the legislation over fierce opposition by nationalists, who said the changes would divide the country and amounted to giving in to Kurdish rebels who fought a 15-year war in southeastern Turkey.
Instead, an interagency review process, headed by top national security deputies, worked through the summer to produce a National Security Presidential Directive that was ready by Sept. 4 for Mr. Bush's approval.
Outside the courtroom on Wednesday, sheriff's deputies pushed through the narrow corridor, escorting handcuffed men in variations on the Pacific north-west uniform of jeans, flannel, and rain gear, past the crowd of supporters, journalists, and documentary film-makers jockeying for seats inside.
Sheriff's deputies swept through the park just as Muñoz took the podium, transforming the rally into panicked flight.
In just minutes, sheriff's deputies cut through the chain-link fence perimeter and ordered protesters out.
As deputies rushed through the front door and began evacuating the home's residents, Mendoza appeared in the doorway and a deputy shot him twice, mistaking him for the fleeing suspect, sheriff's officials said.
Opposition sympathizers accompanied the newly-elected opposition deputies through lines of soldiers to reach the National Assembly building in the center of the capital, Caracas.
The indictment accused Sgt. Eric Gonzalez, the supervisor of deputies working in the visiting center, as reprimanding deputies for not using force against visitors who had "supposedly 'disrespected' these deputy sheriffs through the visitors' words or conduct," the indictment said.
As the chief and his deputy drove through the Whitman Park neighborhood this month, people sitting on their stoops stood up to shake their fists and shout obscenities at them.
