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...prompted by a new constitution that went into effect last week prohibiting the extradition of suspects in drug crimes. It is hard to believe the narcotics lords will truly mend their ways. Yet in Colombia the truce brought a sense of relief, allowing President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to lift a state of siege declared in 1984 after traffickers killed a government minister...
...Austria and Hungary are a major source of federal income. Slovenian information minister Jelko Kacin rejoined, "I state categorically that Yugoslavia no longer has a border with Italy or Austria." While Slovenia did demobilize 10,000 members of its forces and respond to federal demands to release prisoners and lift blockades around army bases, Kacin warned, "The war is not over...
Bush signaled last week that Pretoria was getting close. "Dramatic progress has been made," he said. "When the five conditions are met, we will lift the sanctions." White House officials say four of the requirements have been fulfilled and the fifth -- release of all political prisoners -- is in sight...
...Poitier's screen characters were as noble as any blond hero -- nobler, because they withstood and deflected so much unjustified abuse. But the role of soulful sufferer was a dead end for blacks on both sides of the movie screen. Intransigent white America could not be persuaded to lift blacks to equality. Could the system then be scared into action? The Watts and Newark riots of the mid-'60s may have been mainly fratricidal, and the your-money-or- your-wife taunts of the Black Panthers may have been mainly street theater, but they lent an image of the black...
...year-old woman was on business in Tampa last year for the Florida supreme court. Stranded at the courthouse, she accepted a lift from a lawyer involved in her project. As they chatted on the ride home, she recalls, "he was saying all the right things, so I started to trust him." She agreed to have dinner, and afterward, at her hotel door, he convinced her to let him come in to talk. "I went through the whole thing about being old-fashioned," she says. "I was a virgin until I was 21. So I told him talk...