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...than endemic. In Latin America, however, where state security apparatuses are notorious for incorrigible corruption and brutality, many observers--including some middle-of-the-road members of Congress--believe a que sera attitude is insufficient. As a case in point, human-rights activist Ann Manuel cites the CIA's liaison with Honduras' infamous Battalion 316 during the years when the country was considered an essential anti-Sandinista bulwark. "For four years," she says, "you had U.S. training of a special-intelligence unit, specifically instructing them not to torture, yet they systematically tortured...
...wants to, the CIA can clean house. Fernando Botero, the defense minister of Colombia, recalls a visit four months ago by agency officials who explained that they could no longer do business indiscriminately with the Colombian military, some of whose officers have death-squad links. From now on, "liaison" would occur only with officers found to be free of corruption and human-rights violations. Despite patriotic grumbling within his government, Botero agreed, and the result has pleased him. The agency drew closer to the Colombian National Police, one of the government's cleaner outfits, and the teamwork proved essential...
Malagant's character in the film takes the place of Arthur's son Mordred, the product of an incestuous liaison with his sister Morgan la Fay, who brings about the fall of Camelot by exposing the affair between Guinevere and Lancelot...
...TENUOUS LIAISON...
Seeking to reopen its channels of communications with alienated homosexual voters, the Clinton Administration announced the appointment of a liaison adviser on gay and lesbian issues. But the outreach effort was somewhat soured when a delegation of gay elected officials was admitted to the White House by guards who were wearing rubber gloves, apparently because of an unwarranted fear of contracting aids...