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When DEA investigations threatened those operations, prosecutors said, Zuno plotted with drug kingpins and several prominent Mexican officials to have Camarena kidnapped and tortured. The object was to find out how much U.S. agents knew about the traffickers and their patrons in the government. A cartel bodyguard turned government witness testified that a few months before the abduction, Zuno told the other alleged conspirators that Camarena should be interrogated on what he knew about "my general," referring to General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, then Mexico's Secretary of Defense. U.S. officials claim that a transcript of a torture-interrogation session, which...
With no plausible short-term military options, the response of the West, led by the U.S., can initially be only economic. American diplomats set to work last week at the United Nations and in world capitals to produce a resolution imposing comprehensive sanctions. The object is to keep Iraq from selling oil and buying arms. The Security Council, reflecting the new amity between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resolved that Iraq must withdraw or face further international action...
...when rebel forces appeared heading for victory over Doe, the U.S. warships steamed toward Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves that traditionally has close ties to Washington. President Doe, a former army master sergeant who rose to power through a bloody coup in 1980, had become the object of growing popular resentment because of his regime's rampant corruption and arrogance. The conflict also centered on tribal antagonisms. What support Doe still claimed came from his Krahn tribe, while the rebels received support from the Gio and Mano peoples...
...director: "I'm an old farm boy and recognized it as a bull calf immediately." Judging from the style of other pottery in the temple, he dates the figurine to about 1550 B.C. Because that is up to several hundred years before the escape from Egypt, Stager thinks the object might well have been a prototype for the calves mentioned in the Bible. It also supports the belief that the Israelites took some of their religious practices from other Canaanites...
...object's significance may be as much artistic as it is religious: incredibly well preserved, it is intact except for a missing left horn. Israeli archaeologists are in awe of its beauty. Says Avraham Biran, former director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities: "People will be copying this because it's so pretty, so delicately done. It's in a class by itself...