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...government, but the proof to back it up. Irancontra. A Gulf War that looked an awful lot like a battle to keep the world safe for oil. The CIA too busy with an illegal scheme to overthrow Central America to chastise contacts for flooding poor black neighborhoods with cheap crack cocaine. All of that, plus Dynasty, The Bonfire of the Vanities and sex, lies and videotape...
...were content to live here without being naturalized until they felt threatened by laws such as Proposition 187, which affected their health care." She points out, however, that the new push to integrate existing residents into the American mainstream "doesn't change the efforts of the Clinton administration to crack down on illegal immigration." For prospective Americans outside the country's borders, the wait will be much longer...
...network's new animated sitcom The PJs, Thurgood Orenthal ("Goody") Stubbs, the superintendent of an inner-city housing project, tries to chase a swarm of vagrants out of his embattled building. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat," says one, a series regular named Smokey, "but crack don't smoke itself...
...their lowest level in 24 years. In 1997, murder dropped 8% and robbery fell 17%; early 1998 figures suggest the trend continues. Experts can't agree on why, citing factors from better policing to a booming economy. But one of the most fascinating developments seems to be that crack is now your father's drug. Users are maturing, if not heading into middle age, and dealers are less aggressive in recruiting youths, who tend to be turned off by crack's devastation (and more interested in the trendier, mellower highs of drugs like heroin). And the business has become more...
WASHINGTON: The 106th U.S. Senate wasn't even a day old when its bipartisan facade began to crack. Majority Leader Trent Lott, his trial-in-a-week plan in tatters, announced that the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton could take at least three weeks -- witnesses included -- and "could very well take longer than that." Minority Leader Tom Daschle pledged a "universal, unanimous" Democratic opposition to calling witnesses. Which means that Lott has a lot more compromising...