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Aristide said it was in the interest of theU.S. to help restore democracy in Haiti. Not onlyhas the dictatorship forced thousands to fleeHaiti for the U.S. Haiti has now become a majorbase for illegal drug shipments...
...Since the coup, Haiti has become the secondlargest transshipment point for cocaine," saidAristide. "The military receives $1.2 billion fromthe drug cartels for this privilege...
...savage battle with the league's similarly adorned owners over issues such as salaries, benefits and 'do-rags. And sometimes, as in 1995, according to the New York Times, to not do battle ? in fact, to look the other way ? over a number of players who failed drug tests. The reason? The league was looking for, and got, a tougher drug-abuse policy that is considered one of the most comprehensive in professional sports. For their part, a group of players, which one league official numbered at 16 but an owner told the Times was more than two dozen, avoided...
...came after the Times obtained some 40 hours of videotape of union meetings, filmed by a Florida company for a documentary on the NFL Players Association that was never completed. Besides providing a rare look into the workings of the elite union ? and such backroom deals as dropping the drug cases ? the tapes give the first public confirmation of something players and owners have privately been saying for years: That alcohol abuse is a far bigger problem than illegal drugs in the league. Union assistant executive director Doug Allen is seen on tape noting that there were "a dozen alcohol...
Remember "the big disease with the little name"? Well, the bad news is that the sharp decline in deaths from AIDS that began two years ago, occasioned by powerful new drugs, has been cut in half. Some patients have struggled to get access to the drugs; others haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National...