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...some of the most blood-drenched elements in Guatemala's armed forces, which have killed more than 100,000 fellow citizens in the past 30 years. He intimated that the National Security Agency and the Army had also engaged in cover-ups of Alpirez's acts. The resulting furor launched six investigations by various government branches...
...despite claims the committee exists solelyfor purpose of "fact finding," a furor over thecommittee's existence still persists amongacademicians and ufologists--those who study UFOs...
Meanwhile, the furor in Washington is unsettling Guatemalans, who fear that the army, already racked by internal divisions and under fire for having the hemisphere's worst human-rights record, will lash out because of the disclosures. Officers angered by pressure on the army to reform may have set off a series of explosions near the Guatemala City airport on March 26. "Right now anything is possible--a coup, an assassination attempt on the President or Defense Minister," warned a political analyst close to the military. Washington may have emerged from the cold war, but in Guatemala, military violence...
...knew what, and when, remains a tangled one. The CIA says it has engineered no cover-up. "When we had credible information, we shared it with the right folks," says a CIA official, "not fractionated and fragmentary [information] and rumors." But Torricelli's charges have sparked a furor: the President has vowed to fire anyone responsible for withholding information from the Administration...
...midst of this furor, the Penn faculty executive committee has called for tougher rules against faculty-student romances; it wants to amend the policy that calls such relationships "unethical" so that it would prohibit professors from dating students under their supervision. For her part, Topol doubts this will do any good. "I can't imagine how any student would come forward after seeing what Penn has done to me," she says. "Penn's response has done nothing but make the wounds deeper and more painful...