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...depths of the tragedy can be measured elsewhere: Unemployment has risen to its highest level in fifteen years. Over 44 percent of the population in Greater Buenos Aires is now living in poverty. And for the first time in recent history, Argentina, which has traditionally prided itself as a haven for German, Italian, Russian and, more recently, Korean immigrants, saw a net flow of emigrants out of the country...
During its most recent term, the Supreme Court for the first time outlined the situations in which workplace drug testing would be permissible. The court approved testing for railway workers involved in major accidents and for customs employees seeking jobs that involve narcotics interdiction or require them to carry a gun. Some civil libertarians were encouraged by the fact that the rulings were narrowly crafted to apply only to well-defined groups of workers, leaving open the possibility that the court would not approve more wide-ranging testing...
...some legal experts have also begun to talk about an emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug...
...Western Europe pursues the promise of a more prosperous and safer era, the recent past seems impossibly remote. Only a few years ago, the area's decline seemed assured. Euro-Communists loomed large, Spain's infant democracy was threatened by a military coup, and terrorists operated so boldly that a former Italian Prime Minister was kidnaped and murdered. West Europeans seemed trapped in a twilight zone of economic entropy and declining international influence. After the deep OPEC-induced recession that ushered in the 1980s, millions of workers remained sidelined, victims of an affliction dubbed Eurosclerosis -- a hardening of the business...
Deng's failure to make an appearance during the recent visit by the leader of Burkina Faso to Beijing has fueled new rumors that the 85-year-old Chinese leader is seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda...