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...murder of Drug Enforcement Administration operative Enrique Camarena. Alvarez admitted being in the house where Camarena was tortured and killed, but a Mexican policeman reported to the American FBI that another physician had also been there. Mexican President Salinas hailed Alvarez's release as a "correction of an insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Doctor? | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama is said to have been born thousands of years earlier, was deemed an insult by many Hindus, egged on by politicians eager to convert fervent faith into political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Work Destroys All Peace in India | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...stories appeared before Nov. 3, Packwood might well have lost his costly ($7.8 million) re-election battle against Democrat Les AuCoin. A previous challenger for Packwood's seat, former state supreme court justice Betty Roberts, derided the implication that alcohol had caused the Senator's misbehavior as "an insult to the victims and the voters of Oregon. I think the only proper step for him to take now is to resign." Oregon Democrats were organizing a recall effort, even though legal experts say the state's law on $ recall does not apply to members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conduct Unbecoming | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

This is a part that should bring the highest returns of all. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to all Harvard's alumni intelligence inasmuch that they never had any such advantage in the first place and if they had, they had lost it many point ago by their own hand to the point that they already became the laughing stock of Wall Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Alumni Evaluates Endowment Performance | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...forced him to resign. Although the dollar amount hasn't been determined, some reports estimate it could run into the millions. Ultimately the American taxpayer will foot the bill. An editorial in the New York Times called the court's decision "ludicrous" and said the ruling "adds injury to insult." A spokesperson for Nixon says all the money will go to the Nixon Library and to pay Nixon's legal fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Tapes Again | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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