Word: deas
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MUSEUM THE DEA MUSEUM Arlington...
...Enforcement Agency after the heiress received an odd parcel, called the two numbers on its address, found they were pay phones and immediately called the cops. Had she opened it, she would have found $20,000 to $40,000 worth of drugs. She was informed of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after her call to police. The agents were actually going to arrest her, but were stymied because she had already reported the package. Hearst believes the incident has something to do with the presidential pardon she's seeking...
...scheme. Although stings are illegal in Mexico, U.S. undercover narcotics agents ran much of the operation there. But oddly, nobody told the State Department, even though it has been working hard to get diplomatic immunity for drug agents. As a result of Casablanca, Mexico is considering trying to extradite DEA agents for violating Mexican law. At the U.N. drug conference in New York City last week, Mexico's Foreign Secretary, ROSARIO GREEN, angrily told reporters that the Secretary of State claimed not to have been informed about the operation. The speculation at the drug conference was that Albright had been...
...Mexicans are complaining that their sovereignty is being violated," says Stogel. "They want the agents involved in the sting arrested and extradited." Stogel reports that Clinton yesterday may have expressed some regret over the handling of the operation, but also stressed that there would be no prosecution of DEA agents. Despite yesterday's talks, a Washington meeting later this week between Mexican legislators and their U.S. counterparts will likely see sparks flying...
...major case of government doublethink, Janet Reno put the federal seal of approval on Oregon's assisted suicide law Friday -- while maintaining that neither she nor the President were dropping their longstanding opposition to euthanasia. Reno was nixing recommendations from the DEA, which wanted to withdraw prescription licenses from Oregon doctors who give their patients barbiturates. That means the Death With Dignity Act, which has no opposition from the Supreme Court, will continue without interruption from the feds...