Word: del
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Call it another cover-up. Love bites (hickeys) may bruise skin. But at the Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, they apparently also bruise sensibilities. So much so that the Brawley, California, health company has banned hickeys from sight. Officials say they took the action after six months of complaints from patients and staff that too many employees -- sometimes four or five a day -- were coming in with telltale marks visible on their neck. Employees who refuse to disguise evidence of their passions will be sent home and docked...
Besides Raza, Latinas Unidas and La O, the College is home to Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, Del Sur magazine and the Hispanic Forum, a political group which is concerned with Latin American issues as well as those closer to student concerns...
...PENTAGON HAS QUIETLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF AN Italian air base, just in case the Yugoslav conflict triggers international military action. Under an agreement signed in October, 12 American F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS would hop over from Germany and park at Gioia del Colle, south of Bari, Italy, when needed. The Italians have also agreed to allow expanded U.S. operations at Sigonella Air Station in Sicily...
...Cover-Up? Bush critics dub the most controversial parts of prewar Iraq policy "Iraqgate": claims, still unproved, that the Administration has tried to hide the full extent of its tilt toward Iraq by interfering with the prosecution of the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended more than $4 billion in illegal loans that helped finance Baghdad's purchase of equipment with potential military applications. Officials at the Departments of State, Commerce, Defense and Energy who monitored "dual use" & sales, which amounted to $500 million between 1985 and 1990, knew they were helping Saddam's military...
...appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations. In a defensive counterstrike, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted bribes in the B.N.L. case...