Word: maximum
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...most politically sensitive report will come from Daryl Plevy, the Governor's director of legal and labor issues, who spent her month at the department of health and mental hygiene. Plevy, appalled by the extreme understaffing she encountered in the maximum-security ward of a hospital for the criminally insane, has already taken action to cut red tape on personnel matters. But her report will raise other prickly questions. "Resources are limited," she says. "Should we pay for AZT when you know it will only make that one better for a while, or should we use that money for prevention...
They didn't know it then, but that was the start of one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. law enforcement: the capture and prosecution of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and "Maximum Leader" of his country. The Cessna's pilot, captured four months later, provided the first testimony linking the strongman to drug running. On Sept. 3, almost six years after that steamy chase, Noriega will walk into downtown Miami's federal courthouse to face a 12-count indictment. He is charged with taking $4.6 million in payoffs between...
...government cut as many as 70 special deals to get testimony against the general. Tony Aizprua, the pilot whose plane landed on I-75, served no time at all, while Noriega's trusted bagman Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid got his 70-year sentence reduced to a 10-year maximum. Another defendant who is presumably trying to cut a deal is Ricardo Bilonick, a Tulane-educated lawyer who was whisked back from Panama last week to face charges of running cocaine on his Panamanian cargo airline, Inair...
...country to seek a bailout for 120,000 local depositors, who held a total of $400 million in the bank. The outraged victims of the shutdown, who included Indian and Pakistani families and some 30 municipalities, stood to receive just 75% of their money, up to a maximum of about $25,000. But Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who acquired control of B.C.C.I. for $1 billion last year, was still fuming because the clampdown shuttered the bank without warning just as he was planning to restructure it. "He will do nothing unless there...
...surpass the ancient Olmec pyramids at Cacaxtla, southeast of Mexico City. There a pallid re- enactment of Aztec dances failed to stir the crowd of 3,000, but the sun's pas de deux with the moon, lasting nearly six minutes -- a minute and a half short of the maximum duration possible -- led many to fall to their knees. With Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter suddenly bursting into view in the afternoon, what else could they do but give thanks to the gods, ancient and modern, and pray for the opportunity to view the double dawn again in their lifetime...