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Dudayev: Yes, it was. If the war goes on, the pipeline will never operate. It will be exploded. But if we reach accommodation with Russia, it will acquire a reliable neighbor who will shield it from aggression, acts of sabotage and terror...
While Puerto Rico battles drug dealers and their violence, the consequences are even more disastrous for the tiny island states that neighbor it. Their economies rely mostly on tourism and perhaps a single cash crop like bananas or sugar. That makes them vulnerable to domination by the drug lords. If large countries like Colombia can turn into "narcodemocracies," how are much smaller and more fragile nations to avoid the same fate when they have little firepower or financial incentive to fight back? "We are really worried," says Robert Gelbard, head of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics...
...beginnings of both their political careers were serendipitous. While working as a wind-surfing instructor on the Delaware shore in the summer of 1980, Reed volunteered as a chauffeur for his neighbor, Representative Tom Evans. The Congressman got Reed his first Washington job: driving around a Republican National Committee bigwig who was distributing presidential cuff links to the faithful. Reed's political godfather was consultant Roger Stone, who saw his charge's talent as an organizer and engineered his rise to deputy regional political director for the Reagan-Bush re-election in 1984. Four years later Reed became a shining...
TIMOTHY PASTUCK 49, NEW YORK CITY: Limo driver Awakened by Melida Menzies' distraught daughter, Pastuck called 911 and ran to his neighbor's apartment to find what he described as a slaughterhouse: Menzies' boyfriend Efraim Correa beating her with a baseball bat. Pastuck rushed to get his rifle. When he returned, he said, he ordered Correa to stop, and shot him when Correa refused. Menzies, badly bruised, has thanked Pastuck, and authorities have dropped gun charges against him. The injured Correa faces attempted-murder charges...
...NEIGHBOR OF MINE NAMED DAVID ROTHENBERG, WHO HAS MANAGED TO reach the age of 62, informed me with some pride recently that he is now eligible for the senior-citizen discount at many movie theaters...