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...West Germany to find a suitable concentration camp or synagogue for the President to pay his respects to the Nazi victims. Deaver, who had directed the arrangements for the visit from the start, swept into Bonn with an entourage of 20, leading some members of Kohl's staff to complain privately that Deaver travels with more aides than the Chancellor does. While many West Germans view Kohl as a genial but often bumbling politician, they see the men around Reagan as undignified novices who are ill-equipped to handle the heavy duties of a superpower. In Washington, a State Department...
Some U.S. officials privately complain that many Mexican police aid the Zetas. And other potential microcartels are proliferating on the U.S.'s doorstep: in the Tijuana--San Diego corridor, police are dealing with a gang known as Narco-Juniors, a group of affluent juvenile delinquents recruited as hit men in the 1990s by the Tijuana drug cartel. Authorities in the Juarez--El Paso corridor, meanwhile, report a growing presence of the Mara Salvatrucha, a machete-wielding gang that has terrified Central America in recent years. The threat from groups like the Zetas may persist for years. "This is like...
While they’re still in the Yard, the eccentric sight attracts attention—elderly people complain about the noise, students ask to join in, and, occasionally, tourists abandon John Harvard to photograph them...
...demand revisions, on the basis that the design breached the state's law on equal opportunities - and that disabled people had been persecuted during the Holocaust. A German court rejected the suit, arguing that the changes would injure "the nature of the artistic conception." Europe's disabled people complain that their concerns about access have been dismissed for too long. "We simply cannot be refused access to places because of disabilities," Michel says. Many like her are no longer willing to accept what they see as second-class treatment...
...country ruled by aging Marxist revolutionaries, and where promised economic and political reforms have been painfully slow in coming, that could be a big if. International donors often complain of wasted aid and corruption. Foreign investors continue to spurn Laos in favor of countries with better track records of transparency and accountability. (It was only five years ago that Laos, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, agreed to publish its budget.) Huge trade and budget deficits are masked by a steady stream of foreign aid that, even donors admit, has had little impact on those who need it most...