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...Miami Vice antics of Rivera's show highlighted concerns about the increasingly common practice of letting TV crews tag along on drug raids. A search warrant, says Judge Shipley, does not give police "permission to put the whole nation into somebody's house with TV cameras." Some police officials object that the cameras, lights and onlookers can jeopardize safety. Nor is TV merely an eavesdropper. During one raid on Rivera's show, an officer could plainly be heard to make a telling, and disturbing, inquiry: "We are still live...
...issue sold out in 20 minutes, he says, but he was almost brought up on charges. The thing that saved him was his last name--"they were afraid I might be related to General Doolittle," he says, referring to the American war hero who led an infamous air raid against the Japanese...
...shortage of safe havens. Nor has there been any short circuiting of the cartel's power. Last week, on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, a squad of four killers assassinated Colonel Jaime Ramirez, the respected chief of that country's antinarcotics force who led the highly successful Tranquilandia raid...
...bonds in the late 1970s, using them primarily as a financing tool for companies that were too small or unproven to issue investment-grade bonds. In early 1984 Milken began using the bonds to finance takeover bids. Until then virtually the only way to raise money for a corporate raid was to borrow the cash from banks, which often attached too many strings. Milken was able to raise the billions necessary for a mega-deal by assembling a network of high-rolling investors whom he could call upon to buy junk bonds, or to promise...
Although no one was hurt, last week's raid was one of the most dramatic attacks on the whaling industry in years. In one sweep it devastated Icelandic whalers and focused attention on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a militant international environmental group headed by Renegade Paul Watson, a Canadian. Sea Shepherd, which quickly took responsibility for the action, , claims that Iceland is illegally killing whales for commercial use. Indeed, the International Whaling Commission has issued a ban on commercial whaling through 1990, but it permits the killing of whales for scientific purposes. The Iceland government insists that taking...