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...Colombians can take. Since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped from his maximum-security prison in July, security forces have rounded up or killed dozens of his cronies and relatives; in retaliation, traffickers assassinated 29 police officers over the past two weeks alone. Quite apart from the drug wars, leftist rebels, who so far this year have killed more than 1,000 police, soldiers and civilians, set off a series of bomb explosions and terrorist attacks that left 30 dead, then murdered 26 police guards at a remote oil installation. The public outcry that followed the rebel violence prompted President Cesar...
According to The Times, Charles Taylor, leader of the rebel forces in Liberia that are battling the coalition, has maintained that the coalition is not neutral in the conflict...
This time, though, Little Richard isn't boogieing into new musical territory but following in some unlikely footsteps: those of a rebel named Raffi. Raffi is the Canadian troubadour whose frisky tunes and kid-comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...
...incarnations that contain varying degrees of truth, Perot is both a folksy speaker and a spinner of international conspiracy theories. He is both a computer entrepreneur and a Bubba-like rebel. He is both a Texarkana boy delivering newspapers on a bicycle and a dashing rescuer of two employees from the depths of revolutionary Teheran. Most visibly, he is both a billionaire and a populist...