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...United States "doesn't want to be seen as the aggressor and the enforcer, especially in third world countries and the Western European basin," says Tim E. Codrington '95, who lives in Barbados. "If the U.S. had gone in shooting guns and storming the place, people would have said it's just American bullies...
...Simpson pal Al Cowlings, who drove the football star on his odyssey through the L.A. Basin before O.J.'s arrest on June 17, will not be charged, L.A. officials declared. But he still has to appear in court Friday. Also today, a Baltimore lab began DNA tests on the blood samples gathered at O.J. Simpson's estate and at the scene where his wife and her friend were murdered. Despite last-minute wrangling over a judge's decision, O.J. Simpson's attorneys agreed to accept only a small percentage of the prosecution's blood samples to test on their...
...situation in Haiti is sad but predictable. Like many other Carribean basin countries, Haiti's economy has not changed in a decade and a half; Haitian farmers grow thousands of acres of sugarcane for which there is no market in either Europe or the United States. Moreover, when Reagan's Carribean Basin Initiative failed to stimulate growth and create new markets in the mid-1980s, Haiti's faltering economy crumbled. With the collapse, poverty, disease and hunger wracked the population, and misery became the easiest thing to find in the country...
...issue has divided Cambridge intoconservationists who wish to protect the CharlesRiver basin from 18-wheelers and hungryCambridge-port residents who want a convenientplace to shop...
...into Kazakhstan is part of the biggest global oil rush since energy explorers moved into the Middle East after World War II. Starting with the end of the cold war a few years ago, immense stretches of oil and gas lands -- from the Arctic Circle to China's Tarim Basin to the waters off Vietnam -- have opened up to multinational firms as host countries strive to develop their resources and earn hard currency...