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...armed forces in the war on drugs, the Administration proposes modifying the 100-year-old posse comitatus (literally "power of the county") statutes that bar military involvement in civilian law enforcement. The Senate and House are expected to agree on a bill that will create a new and potent drug-fighting arsenal, including the use of military spy planes, satellite surveillance and sophisticated radar equipment. The House version would even give the Navy the right to board and seize drug-laden vessels outside U.S. territorial waters...
...husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political force in the country. As the ex-President was sped under close guard from a courthouse to her suburban retreat 25 miles outside Buenos Aires, a small crowd of Perónist bystanders chanted her name. Three days later, she arrived in Madrid, and immediately went into seclusion. According to Argentine...
This pattern can lead to a psychological dependence whose effects are not all that different from addiction. Moreover, there is growing clinical evidence that when coke is taken in the most potent and dangerous forms-injected in solution, or chemically converted and smoked in the process called freebasing-it may indeed become addictive...
...even casual sniffing can lead to more potent and potentially damaging ways of using cocaine and other drugs. Many cokeheads take sedative pills like methaqualone, brand-named Quaaludes (tons of which are illegally imported from Colombia) to calm down after their high and take the edge off their yearning for more coke...
AMID THE death motorcycles, the cross-bow slayings, the killer umbrellas and helicopter spearings in this, the latest chronicle of Her Majesty's most potent secret agent, there is a strange poignancy. Bond films have been appearing regularly for about two decades now, and almost because of the hyperthyroid nature of the adventures, they have increasingly begun to seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster...