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...public knew him as Carlos the Jackal, the moniker that best evoked his ruthless, predatory spirit. As he boldly declared in 1975 while holding 11 OPEC ministers hostage in Vienna: "To get anywhere, you have to walk over the corpses." His image is frozen in time in crude black-and-white photos of a pudgy face that seemed menacing in its banality and came to symbolize the world of mercenary terror. But last week as Carlos was arrested in Sudan and whisked to France to face charges that threaten to jail him for life, his most vaunted exploits were exposed...
...most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free. "I don't support any candidate because all I see is corruption and promises that are never kept," said Fidel Lopez Cruz, 67, as he pushed his crude ox-drawn plow across a small plot of land near Oaxaca. If the public concludes the results have been fixed, the new President could face a prolonged period of unrest...
Tapping the crude was one thing, getting it to market another. Without roads or navigable waterways, Chevron built a 165-mile pipeline that followed the Kikori River to the Gulf of Papua, where the first tanker filled...
...didn't work, and slang has gone garbonzo ever since. In the U.S. alone, thousands of vivid new words -- from the rude to the crude to the lewd -- have slipped into (some would say assaulted) the language. Most of the new vocabulary has come fromdiscrete groups for whom a special jargon affords status and protection: students (barf), blacks (jazz, originally to copulate), the military (blow it out your barracks bag), alcohol user (crocked), drug user (crackhead) and the underworld (grifter...
...eager to win contracts to help rebuild Iraq and want the U.N. to lift sanctions against Baghdad so it can resume exporting oil. But PRESIDENT CLINTON opposes the move -- and not just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks in a White House meeting last week...