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...security front comes at the expense of human rights, which, according to a recent study by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, are in a "perilous state." The security forces are enormous, made up of the army, the regular police, the border police, the marine police, the regular presidential guard (known as Force 17), the alite praetorian guard, the civil defense force, military intelligence, general intelligence and the so-called preventive security apparatus. Suspects have been tried late at night, without the knowledge of family members or lawyers. So far, two individuals have died in jail, their bodies bearing signs...
Residents of southern Florida were evacuated from coastal areas today as Gov. Lawton Chiles declared astate of emergency, closed state offices, activated the National Guard, and suspended toll-collecting on evacuation routes in preparation for the arrival Tuesday of Hurricane Erin. While not projected to be as lethal as Andrew was, Erin is expected to pound the southern part of the state with 90 mph winds, dumping up to 10 inches of rain and causing widespread flooding...
...aide Vincent Foster immediately after his death in 1993. That night, then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams and aide Patsy Thomasson were in Foster's office, reportedly searching for a suicide note. They say they removed nothing. But Secret Service guard Henry O'Neill has told Senate investigators that he saw Ms. Williams leaving Foster's suite carrying "files" or "folders on top of each other." ( Williams, who denies this, has passed two polygraph tests.) Says Ratan: "The Republicans' big objective this week is to show that the Clintons were involved...
...suspects, Keith A. Leahy, 25, andBrendon F. Smith, 24, were seriously wounded in agunfight with a security guard and are nowstanding trial. The third suspect is still atlarge...
...schism between a diminishing core of loyal revolutionaries and the rest of Iranian society is growing. The divide is religious, political and especially cultural. "When I came back from the war with Iraq, I was disgusted," says a Revolutionary Guard commander. "I saw my friends martyred, and here all the young people wanted was to be like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers...