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ROAD SHOW On his first trip as U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell dashed through six countries in four days. Despite high-level meetings (with Yasser Arafat and others) on delicate topics (Iraqi sanctions and others), he remained the quintessence of calm. Illustration for TIME by Michelle Chang...
...France, studies have indicated the scale of the problem. A 1999 report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes...
Then came the revelations about a high-level FBI agent who has been accused of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for the past twenty-five years. The accused spy, Robert P. Hanssen, is also believed to have informed the Soviets about one of America's most prized Cold War secrets--a surveillance tunnel under the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington...
...abruptly broke off with Moscow until late 1999, when he just as abruptly resumed as before. In hindsight, FBI officials believe the reason is obvious. In 1992, the FBI and CIA assembled a "backroom" team to figure out why a series of operations had been blown. They suspected a high-level mole. Eventually their stealthy investigations led them to CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames in 1994. Though the backroom hunt was a closely held secret, the ever curious Hanssen might have figured it out from stray details. Even after Ames' arrest, the mole ferreting went on, leading to the 1996 arrest...
Rich stole umpteen million dollars that he owed in taxes and got away with it, thanks to Clinton's presidential pardon, which was preceded by high-level lobbying from the likes of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain...