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...consortium of governments today announced the arrests of 88 alleged drug distributors -- 60 in the U.S. -- and the seizure of $52 million and nine tons of cocaine as a result of an international, two-year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies...
...American public, surprisingly keen on some form of health insurance reform, blames the Republican Party more than President Clinton or Democrats for failing to deliver in 1994, according to a new poll by Newt Gingrich's favorite pollster. But the survey -- conducted by Frank Luntz for a consortium of major hospitals, managed-care companies and pharmaceutical firms that actively opposed the Clinton plan -- says the public would still favor a GOP-backed plan, sight-unseen, over any new Clinton initiative, 44 to 32 percent. Although few people expect Republicans to deliver anything next year, the poll indicates there's still...
...Crimson had in mind when it first reported Mansfield's ideas, unchallenged and unquestionably accepted, earlier that year ("Buell Letter Warms of Grade Inflation," news story, Jan. 15, 1993), or when it later publicized the findings of a confidential study obtained from some unknown source-- a study by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) issued to member institutions in December, 1991 that analyzed admissions rates and SAT scores according to racial categories ("Report Discloses SATs, Admit Rate," news story...
...There were many members of my own community who were opposed to any attempt at a consortium like this," she said. "It's hard to put aside hostile feelings when your mother or father or maybe a relative has been killed during these violent clashes. However, no one said that the peace process would be easy...
...letter yesterday the government's National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to take the planes out of service until further analysis is done. About 30 of the ATR planes are in the air in the U.S and a total of 130 planes, manufactured by the French-Italian consortium Avions de Transport Regional, are in service worldwide.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...