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 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Police on Thursday arrested an associate of the rancher charged in the killing of an American nun who died defending poor settlers in the Amazon rain forest.
With Thursday's arrest, five men are accused in the death of the nun, Dorothy Stang, who spent the last 23 years of her life trying to protect the rain forest and peasants from loggers and ranchers in the eastern Amazon state of Para.
Stang, a naturalized Brazilian originally from Dayton, Ohio, was shot to death Feb. 12 near Anapu, about 1,250 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
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