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...reportedly asked Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to clarify whether his government had any plans to finance the highway. Takeshita said Japan had yet to receive a request from Brazil for funding. As President Sarney's speech last week demonstrated, the proud Brazilians will not be easily deterred. Officials insist that the highway from Acre to Peru will be built in spite of the clamor it has aroused...
...forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently. An agent's "reflexive reliance" on a profile, he wrote, is likely to subject "innocent individuals to unwarranted police harassment." Drug-enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service, insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others...
...Shamir's four-point proposal: allowing Palestinians in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate with Israel for some limited "interim" self-rule, as promised more than a decade ago in the Camp David accords. While Shamir again repeated that Israel would never leave those areas, Bush did insist that the U.S. regards any such negotiations as just a first step toward a settlement. But Shamir felt his basic objectives were satisfied. "The Americans certainly don't agree with all of our policies," said an Israeli official. "But," he added, sounding relieved, "they realize they must work with...
...name is Mikhail, and I'm an alcoholic," says the next speaker. Sober only a short while, Mikhail, 41, stayed home from work on his last birthday out of fear that his co-workers would insist on celebrating the event with a bottle. "I don't want to talk about my drinking tonight. I just want to thank you for the chance to express myself honestly. Until I came here, I had never done that before...
Most telemarketing crooks insist on payment by credit card. Reason: the vouchers can be cashed in at banks before the buyers have second thoughts. Moreover, purloined credit-card numbers enable con artists to compound the crime -- for example, by charging victims several times for the products they purchase over the phone. By the time the consumers receive a bill, the thieves have disappeared, often without shipping any products...