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Only now is Italy beginning to acquire some of these tools. The strong-arm tactics of the Fascists, who disregarded constitutional rights and democratic principles to jail suspected mobsters, succeeded in quashing the Mob for a time. But memories of that dictatorship left Italy with a postwar constitution designed to prevent strong government. After Falcone's death in May, Rome issued decrees to punish Mob suspects who refuse to cooperate and gave police expanded powers to make arrests. Last week the Senate converted some of those into law. Borsellino's murder has stirred calls for martial law and a return...
...abuse scandal that followed 1991's Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine pilots has shot down a Navy Secretary and held up thousands of promotions. Now two top admirals have been hooked -- for other incidents. Vice Admiral Jerry Tuttle, 57, named to head the Navy's air arm, was denied promotion for sexist jokes in a newsletter he writes. Rear Admiral Joseph Prueher, 49, named to take command of the Third Fleet, was gigged for a 1989 episode at Annapolis, where he was the No. 2 man, when male midshipmen handcuffed a female classmate to a urinal...
...concedes that the plan involves compromises and depends on the future good faith of the Congolese government, which is currently racked by turmoil and corruption. Once Congo elects a new government, the strong arm of the World Bank could prove helpful in ensuring that the country honor agreements prohibiting any economic activity in the core area...
...shallow grave in New Jersey's remote Pine Barrens. She had already described how she and her husband grabbed Reso from his home as he set out for work last April and stuffed him into a sweltering storage facility. She also told how Arthur Seale shot Reso in the arm during a struggle. Autopsy reports have not been made public, but officials are saying Reso died only four days into his captivity...
Instead, for more than two hours, the mesmerized chimps hover around us, drawing to within a few arm lengths. I am flabbergasted. Wild chimps do not react this way to humans in any other part of the African rain forest. But this is no ordinary meeting of fellow primates. For the chimps surrounding us, seeing humans amounts to an ape version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind...