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...promise he gave Boris Yeltsin to resume talks with Rugova--Holbrooke arrives at Milosevic's presidential palace. The two tuck into a four-hour dinner of steak, lamb and fish, while Holbrooke warns the Serb leader that NATO air strikes are inevitable if his army continues its clampdown. "What's left of your country will implode," Holbrooke says...
Carillo acts as a liaison between Mexican drug traffickers and the Cali cartel of Colombia, which in recent years has come to dominate the cocaine trade worldwide. Following a U.S. clampdown in the 1980s on their shipping routes through Panama and the Caribbean, the Cali bosses began contracting their transportation to Mexican contrabandista families, bootleggers who for generations have specialized in running goods -- whiskey, heroin, blue jeans -- into the U.S. In the system that eventually evolved, the Colombians flew planeloads of cocaine from Colombia into Mexico, then paid the Mexicans to move the goods across the border...
...state Ethics Committee and the U.S.attorney's office are both attempting to clampdown on relationships between lobbyists andlawmakers, the Globe reported...
...response to what he deemed a new looseness in the Justice Department's interpretation of laws related to child pornography, President Clinton wrote a letter last week to Attorney General Janet Reno ordering a clampdown on porn. The President became concerned when Justice decided not to prosecute a man in possession of videos of young girls posing seductively, on the basis that the girls were clothed...
...Pakistani families and some 30 municipalities, stood to receive just 75% of their money, up to a maximum of about $25,000. But Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who acquired control of B.C.C.I. for $1 billion last year, was still fuming because the clampdown shuttered the bank without warning just as he was planning to restructure it. "He will do nothing unless there is incredible political pressure that he simply cannot resist," says a highly placed Arab banker...