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...current jam, Tyson may plead that he was only doing what is expected of a top dog in a vicious sport. A fighter's business, which may also be his pleasure, is hurting people; because it is the public's pleasure too, he is paid for his work. It would be nice if this walking keg of testosterone believed that what he does is just a job, a dispassionate display of skill, and that his ferocious aggression is merely an attitude to be shucked along with his mouthpiece after the final bell. Nice, but not likely...
...network within the bank whose existence TIME disclosed in articles in July. The network used bribery, extortion, kidnapping and possibly murder to further the bank's aims. Last week sources told TIME that the black network surfaced briefly in the U.S. during a sting operation that forced B.C.C.I. to plead guilty in Tampa last year to laundering drug money. Members of the group came forward to offer their chilling services to undercover U.S. Customs agents who posed as money launderers. But when the agents sought to broaden their investigation to include a probe of the network, their superiors denied...
Such obstacles help explain why Bush went out of his way last week to plead with Iraqi military leaders to overthrow their boss. Going well beyond his previous statements, Bush declared, "Our argument is not with the people of Iraq. It's not even with other leaders in Iraq. We'd be perfectly willing to give the military another chance, provided Saddam was out of there." Explained a Bush aide later: "That was very blatant. We don't care if the military takes over. It's Saddam we want...
...Alan Fiers, head of the CIA's Central America task force from 1984 to 1986, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lying to Congress about when high- ranking intelligence officials first learned of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras. Fiers said he became aware of the diversions and informed Clair George, then the CIA's deputy director for operations, in the summer of 1986. But, Fiers said, George ordered him to deny any knowledge of the transfers when he testified before the House intelligence committee that October. In exchange for being allowed to plead guilty...
...doing hard time, a fact that galls U.S. law- enforcement officials, who believe the Colombian government has bent too far to accommodate Escobar's demands in exchange for getting him off the streets. U.S. officials are also exercised by a nine-month-old presidential decree that enables traffickers to plead guilty to minimal charges in exchange for reduced sentences and guarantees that they will never be extradited. Escobar, who faces nine indictments in the U.S., including a murder charge, took no risks: he waited to surrender until after the Constitutional Assembly voted last week to bar extradition...