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...Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The arrests underscored the existence of a dangerous alliance between the Cali cartel, which controls 80% to 90% of the world cocaine production, and Italy's formidable organized crime groups. "Money is the life blood of a drug organization, and our efforts to dismantle the financial apparatus are as important as, if not more important than, drug seizures," said the Justice Department's Terwilliger. But the heavy demand for drugs -- both in the U.S. and Europe -- suggests there's plenty of life left in the cocaine business...
...College administrators appeared interested in focusing more on undergraduate relations. This summer, Epps was tapped to coordinate the College's race relations apparatus, which now consists of Hernandez-Gravelle's office and Counter's Foundation...
...this office that was so painstakingly designed to avoid kingly dimensions? We have instead gone beyond mere royalty and invested the poor fellow with godly power -- then raised our expectations accordingly and vented almost every human frustration and anger at him. We have girded him with this hideous apparatus for his safety and convenience; all too often it deafens and crushes its audiences and imprisons the President. An old hand from the days of Richard Nixon watched a phalanx of agents muscle aside delegates on the convention floor last week to clear the way for Barbara Bush. "The Secret Service...
...ease out socialism at the October 1991 Party Congress. His reporting is solid and engrossing, especially on the Ochoa-De La Guardia drug scandal and Cuba's involvement with Panama's now deposed Manuel Noriega. Oppenheimer claims that Cuba was set to begin running Panama's intelligence apparatus just before the 1989 U.S. invasion. He also deals with Cuba's silent issue, the black majority who are not eager to see the white exiles of Miami return. Though he adds few fresh observations, he offers a detailed description of the business ties of President Bush...
Cold winter weather, which frequently freezesthe Charles' surface, might also impede a watershuttle. But Zimmerman said a bubbler apparatus,such as those used on upstate New York's LakeChamplain, would keep the water open...