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...most challenged affiliate may be MTV Asia, based in Hong Kong and broadcast in English to 30 countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Mongolia. The region's conservative nature makes it harder to probe delicate issues, but that hasn't stopped the network. Despite Chinese reticence toward discussing politics, MTV Asia veejay Rita Tsang got Chinese and Hong Kong teens to express candid opinions in "Changing Hands," a segment about the crown colony's 1997 return to China, beamed by satellite and cable into about five million Chinese homes. " AIDS at Your Doorstep" covered the disease and safe...
...country through Miami International Airport in late 1990 was large but not extraordinary. The clues to its origins, however, were tantalizing. The U.S. Customs Service, which discovered and confiscated the drugs, learned from Venezuela's secret police that their country's National Guard was behind the contraband. Joining the probe, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration made an even more surprising discovery: the shipment was under the direct supervision of General Ramon Guillen Davila, Venezuela's top drug fighter and a close collaborator with U.S. counternarcotics operations...
...ensuing probe by the U.S. Attorney in Miami focused on Guillen. The general, who has since retired as head of the anti-drug unit, was offered immunity from having his own words used against him -- and came to Miami to testify. According to DEA agents, he has confessed to setting up the smuggling ring and profiting from the operations. "He cried, collapsed, admitted everything he had done," recalled a DEA agent. Guillen, he said, "was trying to do exactly what Noriega did -- no worse, no better." The general has since returned home; he failed to appear before a grand jury...
...which began its own investigation in 1991, taken for a ride? Trying to head off accusations that it profited from the scheme, a CIA spokesman declared that "there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing" by the agency's operatives. But, he said, an internal probe uncovered "instances of bad judgment and poor management on the part of some CIA officers involved, and appropriate disciplinary action followed." Station chief Campbell has retired; McFarlin has resigned...
...report in the Portland Oregonian that pointed to the specific entry in Packwood's diaries potentially linking him to criminal violations. The account stated that the ethics committee had decided to subpoena the diaries after spotting a reference to questions raised by Packwood during a November 1989 finance subcommittee probe into trade barriers erected by Japanese companies. A transcript of the hearing, which the Oregonian says is now under review by the Senate legal counsel, shows that Packwood's questions had the effect of defending Mitsubishi Electric against an attack by a U.S. competitor, Fusion Systems Corp...