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...Mexico into the U.S., distributing drugs in half a dozen American cities and earning as much as $2 billion a year in the process. Ruthless, violent and vain (last year he underwent an operation to trim back his bulbous nose), he spent millions each month bribing a network of corrupt officials in the government. Those payments made him untouchable during the administration of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Now, however, they make him dangerous: the list of public officials in his pocket could cause a scandal of enormous proportions...
Moving to assuage panic about the redesign of the $100 note, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesman held a news conference--in Moscow. Jittery Russian savers, oft burned by the unstable ruble and corrupt banks, hold $15 billion in U.S. cash, most in $100 bills, and up to $200 million in greenbacks is flown to Russia daily to meet demand. Despite U.S. assurance that old notes will be valid "forever," Russians are expected to race to exchange their old notes as soon as the new ones are released next month...
...equipped to monitor the elections, and thus made cheating very easy. Most of the reports I have received say that many people voted without registering. If these reports turn out to be true, then the Palestinians have to make an important choice: whether to be just another dictatorial and corrupt Middle East country, or whether to be the second democratic country in the region. They will have to decide this. That is the challenge...
China's leaders, never known for lenience, are suddenly acting tougher than in the recent past, jailing dissidents, executing dozens of criminals and corrupt officials, pressuring foreign journalists. Last month the National People's Congress submitted new laws to make it easier to arrest individuals and impose martial law. There have never been serious impediments to doing either, but for some reason the government has decided to remove even flimsy legal obstacles...
...wary of their role, in both the capital and other cities, including Shanghai, where more police have been deployed. An anticorruption drive by Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where...