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...brewers insist the beverage is a bone-fide beer. "It's made more or less in the same way as our Pils with many of the same ingredients," said a spokesman from Schelde. "We've just added some minerals and left out the alcohol. In fact, it's probably a lot healthier than regular beer...
Despite North's efforts, contra leaders and others in Central America insist with good reason that nothing close to $30 million in Iranian arms profits was spent on military supplies or equipment. "The whole operation was held together with string," says William Wehrell, a pilot who flew supplies to the contras this year. "We couldn't even afford a proper navigational system to make sure that we dropped our loads to the right people...
...proceedings, however, were denounced by radicals in both the black and white camps. Black nationalist groups such as the banned African National Congress and the multiracial United Democratic Front, which insist on black majority rule rather than power sharing, heaped scorn on the Durban deliberations. Two far-right white groups, the Conservative Party and the Herstigte National Party, which oppose political concessions to blacks, de clined invitations to attend...
...count on it. If anything will bring these campaigns back to reality, it could be the electorate."The saving grace is the voters, who at the end of the day insist on real substance," says Bruce Reed, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, who was Bill Clinton's chief domestic policy adviser. But then again, he adds, "they don't always get what they want...
...objective standards, Chavez is still not Castro. Says one Chavez official, "We're a hell of a long way from a [Castro-style] regime." Chavez gushingly admires and subsidizes Castro. But many officials in Caracas, especially younger ones, wince when you equate the two. They insist their democratically elected commandante is hardly poised to snuff out free speech and free enterprise or stoke armed revolution abroad. Chavez may control the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, but they believe he can't afford to squander a more valuable commodity - his democratic legitimacy, something Castro never had and which gives Chavez...