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...drug arrests at a rate of 60,000 a year, roughly the same as in 1988 and 1989. There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little...
Menu Man says he is about 40 years old, and was born in California's San Fernando Valley. "I was in the service," he says. "I was stationed here and I've been with Harvard over 15 years...
Despite a poll that said 90% of Brazilians did not consider the affair sufficient reason for dismissal, President Fernando Collor de Mello was worried that the scandal might damage his administration's credibility. His sensitivity is understandable: three weeks ago, a woman from the state of Alagoas claimed that the President was the father of her 10-year-old son. Last month a candidate for governor in the state of Rio Grande do Sul was hurt by allegations from his former wife that he had deserted their three children. And in the state of Amazonas, gubernatorial candidate Gilberto Mestrinho...
BRAZIL. Like Pakistan, Brazil solemnly denied for years that it had an atom bomb program. The country's new civilian President, Fernando Collor de Mello, has admitted publicly that such a military effort was under way, and has ordered it closed down. He shoveled a symbolic two scoops of lime into a 1,050-ft. test-site shaft last month and ordered the site closed...
...Fernando Solana, the Mexican secretary of foreign affairs, spoke before an audience of about 200, including top University officials and the Mexican ambassadors to the U.S. and the United Nations...