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...same bed for many nights to come as he waits to stand trial. He has ordered his lawyers to file suit against French agents, whom he claims drugged, bound and abducted him from Sudan. In Paris the Justice Ministry is vowing to open old files that could compel Carlos to stand trial at least four times. Meanwhile, Berlin's attorney general is threatening to seek extradition for a 1983 bombing. In the Middle East, Arabs are bracing for shocking disclosures, since Carlos is "a walking encyclopedia of terrorism," says investigating magistrate Bruguiere. An East European diplomat in Beirut admits that...
...that month, on March 1, after 28 days of maneuvering by sundry officials, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes forwarded a memorandum to the First Lady that sheds light on a central question of the Whitewater affair: What deep, dark secret would compel so many senior Administration officials to attempt intervention in a probe that should have been immune from politics? The memo, written by White House associate counsel Neil Eggleston, warned that the RTC could sue "the President and Mrs. Clinton" if Clinton's 1984 campaign "knowingly received diverted Madison assets" or if "the Clintons knowingly received...
...strong imposed them on the weak; allies rather than enemies were the target (as when economic pressure helped the U.S. force the French and British from the Suez in 1956); and, most important, the goal did not strike at the core of a nation's identity -- sanctions designed to compel the release of kidnapped diplomats, for example, do not challenge vital interests. But when the underlying objective is nothing less than regime toppling, even tinhorn dictators have successfully resisted sanctions. Cuba's Castro has survived for 35 years. Panama's Noriega held on until the 82nd Airborne removed him. Haiti...
This week the heads of the nation's 40 leading public housing agencies will gather in Washington to hear the case for the lease provisions Clinton favors. "You could legally compel" such clauses, argues White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, because "residing in publicly funded housing is a privilege, not a right" -- but political reality renders mandatory provisions impossible. So, says Cutler, "we're hoping that the majority of project tenants" who have signaled their support for Clinton's plan "will exert peer pressure" on those reluctant to go along. However the idea plays -- and it will surely be tested...
...legal drugs, even if heavily taxed and extensively regulated, would no doubt be cheaper than illegal ones, which could mean more people sampling them out of curiosity. But this danger has to be weighed against the insidious marketing dynamic of illegal drugs, whose wildly inflated prices compel the low-income user to become a pusher and recruiter of new users...