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...that the drug merchants have been so successful at subverting law-and-order that they have superseded leftist insurgents as the main threat to the region's fragile governments. The tentacles of the narcotraficantes reach up to top officials and down to lowly policemen. With a wink and a nod from cooperative judges and prison officials, notorious narcotics peddlers have strolled out of jails in Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. Customs and immigration officials in Costa Rica and the Bahamas look the other way as some of the hemisphere's most wanted men have walked from their private planes to waiting...
While the governor predicts that his message for new employment and training initiatives, better industrial relations and improved education will assure a Southern victory, his superior Southern organization and the nod from influential Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton are critical assurances...
Brown Coach Mike Cingiser has been experimenting with the other two starting spots this year, but it looks like freshman Mike Traina (3.6 p.p.g.) and 6-ft., 7-in. senior Sean Moran (6.4 p.p.g., 4.9 r.p.g.) will get the nod against the Crimson...
...eclectic, not to say bizarre, career has also included stints as co-owner of the New Orleans Buccaneers franchise in the American Basketball Association, an activist for victims of the Biafran war in Nigeria and, briefly, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party in 1980 (he turned down the nod, he says, because the party was too right wing even for him). A New York University dropout, Downey once spent two months in jail for passing a bad check, an incident he mentions freely on the air. In 1982 he answered a newspaper ad and landed a job as talk...
...main question surrounding Monday's interview was the degree to which American TV was being manipulated. All three networks, as well as CNN, had sought a pre-summit interview with Gorbachev, but the Soviets gave the exclusive nod to NBC. CBS executives complained that their network was being punished for aggressive coverage of the war in Afghanistan and Dan Rather's combative questioning of Gorbachev in Paris two years ago. NBC executives preferred to see their coup as the fruit of a 2 1/2-year negotiating campaign by veteran NBC News Executive Gordon Manning...