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...abuse. Entranced by the words of the President and other high-ranking officials, many Americans now think that drugs are our nation's worst problem. But far worse than Reagan's effort to make drugs a partisan issue is his willingness to violate rights of others in order to crush the enemy...
...crusading Giuliani admits that the old practice of locking up a capo or % two "just helped to speed the succession along." But by striking at all levels of the Mob families and then "peeling away their empires," Giuliani insists, "it is not an unrealistic goal to crush them." Perhaps. But first there are two new and potentially historic courtroom battles to be fought. For the Mob, and for an optimistic new generation of federal crime fighters, it is High Noon in New York...
Although the proceedings may involve as many as 100 witnesses and go on for four months, the crush of spectators last week is a sure sign that the case has a firm hold on Hollywood's attention. Said Defense Lawyer Arnold Klein last week: "If we could sell tickets, Twilight Zone: The Trial would outsell Twilight Zone: The Movie...
...Astorga in turn accused Walters of "repeating the same distortions and lies" in order to disguise an illegal U.S. policy of aggression. Walters countered, "Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement? Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua's private sector?" Within moments, Ortega's appeal was forgotten, and the winds of war began to stir once more...
...year was 1956. On Nov. 4, 200,000 Soviet troops and hundreds of tanks stormed Hungary to crush a daring and bloody uprising, the most direct challenge to Moscow's postwar hegemony over Eastern Europe before or since. Suicide squads lobbed Molotov cocktails, paving stones and sticks at the invaders. Hungarian patriots, some as young as 13, were cut down in hails of automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more...