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...South African-made stun weapons have turned up in Angola and Egypt. Mexico is becoming a production and transshipment site for American and Asian stun devices. It has also begun attacking its own people with the weapons. Last September police turned fire hoses on 400 people protesting election fraud in Campeche. Members of the Cobras security force then waded in, jabbing protesters with 3-ft.-long shock sticks. "I fell to the ground, but they carried on giving me the shocks--on my breasts, vagina, stomach, legs, all over my body," says Layda Silva Sosa...
...face of Russian reform has a new blemish -- a pustule, in fact. The country's third-largest city, Nizhni Novgorod, yesterday elected as its mayor Andrei Klimentyev -- a multimillionaire known in the underworld as "The Pustule.? Klimentyev has done two jail terms for fraud, and currently faces a number of other criminal charges...
...emergency church meetings. "We need to talk," Lyons would say before launching into his explanation. But soon other skeletons emerged in the St. Petersburg Times and in the state investigation. In 1991 Lyons spent a year in a federal pretrial-intervention program to avoid being prosecuted on bank-fraud charges. His marriage certificate to Deborah says it was a first union for both; in fact it was his third. One ex-wife recently came forward with stories that he physically and emotionally abused her; another woman is claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. And Bernice Edwards, 40, is not quite...
...which went on for 81 days. Jury selection was completed in just one day, and prosecutors are already promising the jury videotapes that show the six defendants committing violent acts, carrying weapons and robbing two TV news crews. In May, the Freemen leaders will go on trial for bank fraud and a host of other charges; by then they'll be able to judge for themselves the merits of intransigence as a legal strategy...
...barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades and two divorces, the self-help messiah vanished amid reports of tax fraud (which proved false and won him $200,000 from the IRS) and allegations of incest (which were later recanted...