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...traits that Toumai exhibits are what may be expected in a 7 million-year-old ape inhabiting woodlands whose origin predates the human-African ape divergence. The fossil record is far too complete for any one single ape fossil to jar the expectations of any serious paleontologist. ESTEBAN E. SARMIENTO Department of Vertebrate Biology American Museum of Natural History New York City...
Prosecutor General Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento, whose relentless pursuit of the drug mob has made him the most popular man in Colombia, told TIME last week that he expected the Botero investigation to conclude within two months. That could well mean more painful news for Samper, who, a Bogota analyst predicted, "will be staggering from revelation to revelation if he doesn't step down." Valdivieso sees one potential benefit in the crisis. "If it is resolved properly," he suggests, "at a time when Colombians are willing to reject the narco society they used to tolerate, we will have a better country...
Most of the theaters, shopping plazas and historic sites-including monuments to revolutionary hero Jose de San Martin and writer-president Domingo Sarmiento--are within walking distance of the city's center...
...only to destroy." Their enmity, Rodriguez said, began in 1987 when he refused to help Escobar kidnap Bogota mayoral candidate Andres Pastrana. When Rodriguez declined, Escobar shouted, "Whoever is not with me is against me." Rodriguez blamed Escobar for the August 1989 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, which ignited the campaign to push the cocaine princes from Colombia. Rodriguez claimed he had warned Galan that his life was in danger. "Galan wouldn't listen to us," he said. "He was too wrapped up in the historic importance of his campaign...
Among the new names mentioned by the player-witnesses last week were former Pirate Pitchers Eddie Solomon and Manny Sarmiento, as well as Montreal Expo Outfielder Tim Raines and onetime Outfielder Rowland Office. The most disheartening charges to come out of the trial, however, concerned not coke but amphetamines. Yankee Third Baseman Dale Berra, Yogi's 28-year-old son, said that while playing with the Pirates he got green speed pills from former Team Captains Bill Madlock and Willie ("Pops") Stargell. Berra claimed he , could get a "greenie" from Stargell "on any given day that I asked...