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Addressing a Houston congregation, Menachem Rosensaft, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, termed the President's insistence on going to the Nazi cemetery "so macabre and so awful that one can only wonder what possessed Reagan." If Reagan does not change his plans, Rosensaft warned, "I would want to organize survivors and American veterans to be at the gate of Bitburg, so that he should look into the faces of those he has terribly and permanently offended...
Michael Shelby, the U.S. Attorney in Houston, says the Zetas' military discipline, arsenal and wiretap capability make them more dangerous than other drug groups. Adds José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Mexico's deputy attorney general for organized crime: "You had soldiers from an élite force transferring all the heavy military mystique--the honor, valor, loyalty--to a drug trafficker." After the government captured Cárdenas in 2003, the Zetas had to strike out more on their own. They launched a lethal campaign against Mexican authorities and rival traffickers gunning for control over Cárdenas' former trafficking routes. Mexican officials insist...
...April 11 with representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Justice Department and the New York attorney general's office. Greenberg is set to be deposed the next day. "The stakes are high for anyone even superficially attached to the AIG transactions," says Christopher Bebel, a Houston securities lawyer and former federal prosecutor. "This is how things are today. It's hardball." After all, prosecutors aggressively hunted down the banks that devised the complex partnerships that helped Enron hide its financial deterioration just before it collapsed...
...reminder that for all the mediocrity and repetition of his last years, when his heroin addiction overcame his gifts and took his life, Basquiat was someone who produced some irresistible work. After it wraps up in Brooklyn on June 5, the exhibition moves on to Los Angeles and Houston, bringing cross-country the Basquiat debate--Was he the last inheritor of the Modernist tradition? A puerile nobody? Something in between?--and its attendant recollections of the '80s. Meanwhile, a sizable show called "East Village USA" has just completed a three-month run at the New Museum of Contemporary...
...enjoy the wacky creation of a new industry. Your teenager's cell-phone habit might be driving you crazy, but it's jolting the tech world with a hit of much needed creative chaos. --With reporting by John Hollis/ Atlanta, Coco Masters/New York, Adam Pitluk/ Houston and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago