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...Veterans Against the War Everything is backwards. People shouldn't be looking at Kerrey as a victim but at the families of the Vietnamese who were killed. If Kerrey killed them by accident, and knew it, then he owed them some reparation. If he did line them up and shoot them, then you don't get away with murder because you wear a uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War and Remembrance | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...film opens with a stark scene of the two main characters having sex. "When we tried to shoot the love scene it really shocked Tony," Cheung recalls. "He refused to do it. For two days he was miserable, lying on his bed. So I went up to him and said, 'Look at me, Tony, I've gone through so many scenes kissing, touching girls, grabbing breasts, do you think I really enjoyed it? Just treat it as a job, a normal love scene. I'm not going to fall in love with you, and I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Leslie | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...country can endorse the policy of blasting apart the skyborne narcodistribution system that sends pilots in small planes into Andean skies day after day. The argument against the policy, first raised in the early 1990s, was simple: it violated a fundamental precept of U.S. law enforcement, that cops never shoot to kill unless lives are in danger. Since both the U.S. military and the State Department felt bound by Supreme Court rulings that it is unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes couldn't directly support shoot-downs. To many countries, the whole idea of shooting unarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Shadow Drug War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...with a fudge: U.S. planes would fly surveillance missions but would carry "fly-along" officers from the local countries who would manage the authorization of any actual gunfire. The division of labor worked fine as a legal loophole, but it was an accident waiting to happen, as the Peru shoot-down showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Shadow Drug War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...they have been saying that for years, even as coca production has boomed. The most pessimistic view of the expanded plan is that it will simply militarize an even larger chunk of the hemisphere, creating war zones all along Colombia's borders. Even the legacy of the Amazon River shoot-down will simply be an adjustment of procedures. No one seriously suggests letting the traffickers have the skies back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Shadow Drug War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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