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...four-year court battle has been hard on the whistle-blowers. Says McKay: "I would not urge anyone to subject their families to what I've had to do. If you stand up and insist on not going along with wrongdoing, you're going to have people try to crush you." Recalls Williams: "Ashland Oil had been my life. I felt fiercely loyal to the company, but I felt betrayed." Both men believe they were blacklisted by the petroleum industry after they left Ashland. The executives can hope, though, that their victory may bring about some change in corporate ethics...
...State Department has accused Lilly of going AWOL in the war against narcotics. U.S. officials say the crucial test for Spike will be conducted in the Andes over the next 90 days and insist that no decision should be made until then. In a press conference last week, Ann Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics, asserted that the Upper Huallaga Valley "is not suitable for crops. Peasants moved into the valley to grow coca, period." She pointed out that the cocaine traffickers, who use the area to process the raw leaf into cocaine paste, have inflicted the most...
...fact, Duarte has had a hand in turning White House policy in El Salvador -- considered the Administration's sole success story in Central America -- into another potential failure, alongside Panama and Nicaragua. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador continue to insist that Duarte is making slow progress toward ending the war and establishing a democratic system, but other Western diplomats are more pessimistic. "Things are a shambles," says a West European envoy. "The Americans are in for a shock." Even State Department officials concede that the rosy analysis emanating from the U.S. embassy is "dreamwork...
...their part, Israeli military officials insist conditions are no worse in detention than in Israeli military camps. They defend regulations as necessary for "security" and argue they are providing more privileges for those in detention than convicted criminals normally receive...
...entourage. The hard-liners -- mostly black elected officials and veterans of the 1984 campaign -- are urging Jackson to criticize Dukakis harshly and fight for a ban on unelected super-delegates at future conventions. Some ideologues, led by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, even argue that Jackson should insist on the vice presidency as his due. Such a potentially divisive strategy, coupled with unrealistic demands, seems absurd to Jackson's more pragmatic supporters, many of whom are white liberals new to the cause. They fear that if Dukakis rebuffs Jackson at the convention, it could prompt enough disgruntled black voters...