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...security threat along the Gaza border. But Hamas clearly has the Israeli government's attention -- a sharp departure from the past, when security officials believed the fundamentalists to be more interested in spiritual matters and social work than political or military struggle. The Israelis treated the movement with benign neglect and hoped that it would erode support for the P.L.O...
Drug money has nothing to do with AWAC's. It's all in the computers. Diplomacy over South American crop-switching is a joke, as peasants can earn more than 10 times as much for planting coca as they can for any other crop. Morganthau, who has blasted government neglect of the narcotics money pyramid, would follow the dollars, and arrest any and everyone at the back counter who tries to take money...
...every demonstration," says Lauri Sillak, a 23-year-old Estonian artist. "I like independence, but I'm tired of politics now." The republics expected a disproportionate amount of attention from the West, but that has waned, and some Baltic leaders are worried that Europe and the U.S. may neglect the very countries in which economic and political reform has the best chance. "It will be a long time," says Latvian journalist Valdis Berzins, "before we live on a par with the rest of Europe...
...death by police earlier this month. Two white officers, Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn, will be tried on second-degree-murder charges and could get life in prison if convicted. Freddie Douglas, a black cop, stands accused of involuntary manslaughter, which carries a maximum 15-year sentence, and willful neglect of duty, punishable by as much as a year. Officer Robert Lessnau, who is white, faces a term of as much as 10 years if found guilty of assault. Defense lawyers have come out swinging, playing up an autopsy report that shows Green had traces of alcohol and cocaine...
...critic Carolyn G. Heilbrun from the Columbia faculty should be taken as a strong signal to university administrators across the nation: Feminist scholarship needs support. Heilbrun, a tenured professor who had been at Columbia for 32 years, says she gave up her position this year to protest Columbia's neglect of her field and specifically its failure to tenure more women faculty. While the situation at Harvard is better, we should remain vigilant...