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...well as Latin America, officials insist that the drug merchants have been so successful at subverting law-and-order that they have superseded leftist insurgents as the main threat to the region's fragile governments. The tentacles of the narcotraficantes reach up to top officials and down to lowly policemen. With a wink and a nod from cooperative judges and prison officials, notorious narcotics peddlers have strolled out of jails in Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. Customs and immigration officials in Costa Rica and the Bahamas look the other way as some of the hemisphere's most wanted men have walked...
...insist that we are not absolutists, slaves to a literal reading of the First Amendment," Abrams said. "And then we invariably rule in favor of the First Amendment interests at stake," he said...
Moreover, 18 firms reported that an applicant's sexual orientation is sometimes considered a factor in determining insurability. That practice defies guidelines issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is against the law in eight states. But insurance executives insist that they must be allowed to limit their liabilities: a typical AIDS patient receives up to $130,000 worth of medical care...
...encourage Senate passage of the treaty and to win over nervous West Europeans. Sure enough, West Germany's opposition Social Democrats urged Chancellor Helmut Kohl to respond by starting to remove the 72 Pershing 1A missiles that Bonn and Washington jointly control on West German soil. But NATO officials insist that no Western missiles be scrapped until the Senate ratifies the INF accord...
...soldiers spent their four months of basic training learning to fight enemy armies, not to police occupied lands or control riots. The troops have also labored under a series of ambiguous orders as their bewildered generals struggled to find policies that worked. Though Israeli leaders insist that the soldiers are supposed to open fire only when their lives are endangered and beat Palestinians only when confronted, inexperienced conscripts find it hard to define those conditions precisely. And while military leaders now insist that there was no blanket order to administer indiscriminate beatings, the soldiers in the field and the Palestinians...