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...programs like that of Reyes are serious and whether other Mexican mayors and governors will finally join the effort. Juárez's mayor, who is shadowed by six assault-rifle-toting bodyguards, has ousted half his old police force through drug tests, polygraphs and other "confidence exams." Under his pact with Calderón, Reyes now has to recruit more than 2,000 new cops, who, he says, will be among Mexico's best paid and educated. (Aside from a starting annual salary of $9,000 - twice the usual pay for a local cop in Mexico - they'll receive subsidized housing...
...NATO's Role I totally disagree with Joseph Joffe about NATO [March 30]. It should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved. NATO (or should that be the U.S.?) has started many of the recent wars, using Sept. 11 as an excuse, and dragged its allies into expensive and - as will eventually be proved - fruitless wars. Russia is neither a threat to Europe nor the rest of the world, however, bringing NATO to its borders is provocative. Would the U.S. be happy if Russia made military alliances with Canada or Mexico? I doubt it. Peter Hendricks, reliquias, portugal...
...petro-wherewithal to spread his gospel of a more socialist Latin America free of Washington's imperialist interference. At that summit, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Chávez led large and raucous demonstrations against President George W. Bush and U.S. plans for a hemispheric free-trade pact, which effectively died at the gathering...
...York Rockefeller, Reconsidered Governor David Paterson reached an agreement with legislators to scale down the state's Rockefeller drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same...
...Originally conceived simply as a mutual-defense pact among its members, the Alliance began to adopt a more expansive role during the 1990s, tackling the crises of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo as Yugoslavia collapsed. Today, NATO forces continue to provide the bulk of peacekeeping troops in those countries...