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...with humane conditions for prisoners, so that judges would no longer feel obliged to turn traffickers out on the streets. There would be many more judges and probation officers to make sure that criminals did their time and stayed clean afterward. U.S. diplomats would no longer cover up for corrupt officials in "friendly" nations. Foreign leaders committed to suppressing drug production would be rewarded with lowered U.S. trade barriers for legitimate exports and economic aid to help peasant farmers switch from coca to legitimate crops...
Shannon first covered the drug problem in 1968 as a cub reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. She worked for several publications before coming to TIME in 1987, and has written a book about Enrique Camarena Salazar, the U.S. DEA agent kidnapped and murdered by Mexican drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win was a best seller in paperback earlier this year. The book was turned into the NBC mini-series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, which won an Emmy as the best mini-series...
...crucial relationships. By extending a friendly handshake to Bush, he has shifted away from prickly concerns about a gringo economic invasion and set U.S.-Mexican relations on a steadier course. Conversely, his approach to Mexico's perennial lawlessness has been firm, from tracking down top drug traffickers to jailing corrupt union and business leaders. Admirers who call Salinas' rapid-fire methods "world-class" say this President is a man in a hurry...
...Michael Walsh, 28, also of the South End,simply makes the thumbs down sign when he hearsBulger's name. Then he intones: "Too corrupt. Toomean. Too much. Too much. Too much. Time for achange...
...reinvigorate the two-party system. A victory for Weld will force both parties--but particularly the Democrats--to reform. It will also put into office a person who has proven through his actions (and not just through shocking statements) that he will not be pushed around by wasteful and corrupt dealings. Weld's resignation from the attorney general's office in protest of his boss Edwin Meese's misconduct is a more appropriate "outsider" image than Silber's offending large chunks of the electorate...