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Until recently it was assumed in Mexico that the country's drug problems were not as grave as Colombia's. Local moguls oversaw marijuana and poppy harvests; many made money; no one got hurt. Then on Feb. 1, when 22 suspected narcotics traffickers were arrested in three Mexican states, it became increasingly clear that Mexico had become yet another way station for Medellin cartel business. Six of the detainees were Colombians believed to be midlevel operatives for the cartel. When Mexican federal police inspected a warehouse the Colombians used in Sonora, they found 100 AK-47 assault rifles...
...rose steadily under Chun. After his retirement from the military in 1981, Roh was named Minister of Political Affairs and oversaw national security and foreign relations. In 1985 he became second-in-command, after Chun, of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By early this year, after rivals resigned from the government amid a police-brutality scandal, Roh was poised to become Chun's chosen successor...
...head of the federal Joint Accounting Improvement Program from 1947 to 1956, Frese oversaw widespread reforms of federal financial practices, according to Saturday's Boston Globe...
...court, Inslaw President William Hamilton pointed out that the Justice Department official who oversaw the Inslaw contract was C. Madison Brewer III, who had previously been fired as the company's general counsel. The whole dispute arose, said Hamilton, from Brewer's desire for revenge. Bason agreed, ruling that Brewer had an "intense and abiding hatred" for Inslaw and had used his position at the Justice Department to "vent his spleen." The judge faulted other Justice officials for not investigating Brewer's actions. As for the appropriation of the Inslaw software, the judge likened Justice to a customer who asks...
Until recently, Scott ran Facilities Maintenance and the euphemistically named Dining Services and oversaw the folks who publish course catalogs...