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Even in the U.S., which has some of the toughest environmental laws, safeguarding rivers and reservoirs is a constant struggle. While many companies obey the rules, others still try to use waterways as dump sites. American environmental-enforcement officials have been bombed, shot, run over and sued while trying to perform their duties. But the most demoralizing blows invariably come from their employers: the Governor or commissioner who wants to shield a political contributor or recruit polluters to the state by shutting down environmental enforcement. Some environmental cops must dodge both bullets and their bosses to protect the public from...
Reno had been planning for days for the possibility that she would have to go to Miami, look the family in the eye and demand that they obey the law. It was testimony to her nerve and to her confidence that her 15 years as a Miami prosecutor had taught her to handle the torrid politics of her hometown. And Reno, who has no children, sees herself as their special advocate. It still haunts her that within weeks of taking office in 1993, she relied on other people's advice in handling the standoff in Waco, Texas, which ended...
...along. A month ago, when relatives assumed Castro would never let Juan Miguel out of the country, they said if he just came to the U.S. they would turn Elian over. Last week when he appeared, a thousand conditions had bloomed. In one breath the relatives promise they will obey the law, but they seem to mean only the laws that work to their advantage. Even though the courts ruled last month that this was an issue for the INS and not a custody fight that belonged in family court, the Miami relatives say they won't be satisfied until...
...then there's the problem of getting Microsoft to obey the new rules. "Conduct remedies require some degree of cooperation and good faith--or a very significant enforcement apparatus," says Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Microsoft's critics complain that the company doesn't act in good faith: they point out that this case was filed in the first place when Justice determined Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent agreement. Enforcement mechanisms have their own problems. Almost nobody--inside Microsoft or out of it--wants the Federal Government overseeing Microsoft's business decisions and product designs...
Holtzblatt said students did not plan to obey this ruling...