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Mariana Rodriguez Villegas' assailants were anything but subtle. After stopping her on a Mexico City street two weeks ago, the four men held her at gunpoint and gave her a blunt message for her employer, writer Jorge Castaneda, one of the fiercest critics of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's government: Lay off or die. Three days later, after the young secretary identified one of her menacers as a former police agent, a fifth thug threatened her life as well...
...Hampshire's Seabrook plant has produced some of the nuclear power industry's fiercest battles, leading to more than 2,500 arrests of protesters since the mid-1970s and to repeated announcements of its demise. Yet like the phoenix, the nuclear plant has a way of rising again. Last week the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag of $6.4 billion...
Tomassoni's fiercest loyalties lie with Cleary, one of his best friends and his coaching mentor...
...Salvador, the U.S.-backed right-wing government has spent the last two weeks battling leftist insurgents in one of the fiercest rebel offensives of the decade. Media attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
...fiercest division within the ranks of journalism is between the majority who support all-out war against the drug lords and those, notably the owners of Medellin's El Colombiano, who prefer a negotiated truce. In 1984, when he was still editor of the paper, Juan Gomez Martinez wrote, "To sit down with these despicable people, who are wanted by justice, is dishonest. It would twist the values of our country. It is an immoral and terrifying proposition." Gomez -- whose title became publisher when he was elected mayor of Medellin in 1988 -- has turned into a leading advocate of government...