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...propaganda battle between Managua and Washington as both sides sought to score points off the Hasenfus trial. Nicaraguan officials, including President Daniel Ortega, have indicated that Hasenfus will be found guilty, then released as early as Thanksgiving. "It's a chance to show Americans how kindhearted they are," scoffed Antonio Tijerino, a Washington-based attorney for the contras. U.S. officials, meanwhile, branded the tribunal a kangaroo court. Since it was established in 1983, the court, perhaps unsurprisingly, has had a 99% conviction rate. Each panel consists of a lawyer who serves as its president and two non-lawyers selected from...
...thighs as some simps are in the chest, gives freely of his Louisiana past. Born less than five miles from where he lives today with his wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading rice, went slack. Cretini switched to shrimping. So did scores of other unemployed Louisianans...
...further casualties of war. In the sunbaked border town of Danli, the local coffee-growers' association estimates that its members have lost $15 million in four years. The farm owners have seen their land destroyed and their workers discouraged. "I am down from 30 workers to eight," complains Antonio Eraso, the group's president, "and now some of our children are starving. We are worse victims of the war than those in Nicaragua...
...drug-testing call is also being heard in city government. Setting an example for public employees, San Antonio's Democratic mayor, Henry Cisneros, underwent urinalysis, prompting one suggestion for a new sign for hizzoner's desk: THE JAR STOPS HERE. While Cisneros tested negative, City Councilman Ed Harrington flunked his urinalysis: the test revealed caffeine overload, and Harrington subsequently confessed to a ten-cup-a-day coffee habit...
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