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American drug warriors, welcome to your nightmare--a do-it-yourself guerrilla narcotic spread by paranoid insomniacs who think they see federal agents through every keyhole, even when it's just the Domino's Pizza man. In cities large and small across the West and Midwest crank belt, from Oregon to Iowa, where the drug is known as the poor man's cocaine in towns that barely had cocaine in the first place, the drug arrives nonstop from every direction and by every imaginable route. Wrapped by the ounce and the pound in duct-tape eggs that can be stashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...defending Warsaw, Prague or Budapest? Surprisingly, few outside elite foreign policy circles seem to care that America is considering expanding our European security agreement to include Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Is greater piece-of-mind for those countries worth the risk of provoking a struggling and paranoid Russia? If Cold War-like tensions do arise once again, this decision--whichever way it goes--could become one of those fateful moments that historians will one day study and wonder "How could they have been so stupid...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Summer Amusement | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

...ignored the disaster he was inflicting on his people. Living in a deserted Phnom Penh, he was obsessed with his own safety, regularly changing houses in paranoid addiction to secrecy. He trusted very few comrades for long: he had 16,000 Khmer Rouge cadres tortured to death in the infamous Tuol Sleng interrogation center--"strings of traitors," as he saw them, who had to be "burned out." Yet when confronted with this by Thayer, Pol Pot claimed he had never heard of Tuol Sleng and showed no sign of remorse. "I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Butcher Of Cambodia | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

These are the two defining facts of Charles Singleton's life He's a convicted murderer. And when he's not under medication he's psychotic. The Arkansas death row inmate is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, which would ordinarily spare him the death penalty for his 1979 slaying of grocery store clerk Mary Lou York. But under a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to medicate inmates? whose mental condition poses a danger to themselves or others, Singleton is forced to take the very drugs that render him sane enough to be executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sane Enough to Die | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...embraced the people of the projects as if they were family and tried to steer them off the path to an early grave. As a consequence, Brother Bill is perhaps the only outsider who can walk freely through the 15 buildings that make up Cabrini-Green or penetrate the paranoid, often vicious circle the gangsters have built around themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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