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...enforcement officials in both Colombia and the U.S. warned last week that a feud between drug lords based in the Colombian cities of Medellin and Cali is not only getting bloodier at home but has spread north to New York City. Its cause, they say, is a drive by the Medellin cartel to muscle into the New York cocaine market long controlled by the mobsters from Cali...
...tragedy grew out of an ancient blood feud between Burundi's two main ethnic groups: the lanky Tusi, who are also known as the Tall Ones, and the stockier Hutu, the Short Ones. Although the Tusi represent only 15% of the country's population of 5 million, they have long dominated both the government and the military. The Hutu, by contrast, are mostly subsistence farmers. In 1972, after an aborted coup attempt by the Hutu, the Tusi launched a campaign of terror that resulted in an estimated 100,000 Hutu deaths...
Duarte's Christian Democratic Party last week resolved a long-running feud over who its presidential candidate should be. The winner: Fidel Chavez Mena, a former Planning Minister, who defeated a challenge by the longtime party boss, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes. Although Duarte and the candidate are not on the best of terms, Rey Prendes' close ties to corrupt officials led the U.S. embassy to favor Chavez Mena. "It is almost like Duarte is already completely forgotten," says a European diplomat. "It is really quite chilling...
...real problem on this enigmatic ball club, it seems to me, is the glaring lack of leadership. This was never more apparent than during June, when the Red Sox resembled Family Feud or The People's Court. On one well-publicized bus ride, Wade Boggs fought Dwight Evans, Evans fought Rick Cerone, and Manager John McNamara quietly slipped off the bus during the middle of these episodes and headed into the team's hotel. Later that night, Oil Can Boyd went on a rampage through the halls of the hotel. It seemed that everyone (even the players' wives...
Yeltsin's tirade did not go unanswered for long. In what amounted to a public airing of a long-simmering Kremlin feud, Ligachev urged the conference to deny Yeltsin rehabilitation because he had failed to renounce his "doubtful and uncomradely methods." Gorbachev sought to put the matter to rest, saying everyone involved in the Yeltsin affair had "learned a lesson...