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...spotlight may soon shift to Haiti. Leon Kellner, the U.S. attorney in Miami who prepared one of the two pending cases against Noriega, is concluding an investigation of Haitian Colonel Jean-Claude Paul for allegedly helping the Medellin cartel move cocaine into the U.S. Paul, who commands an infantry battalion in Port-au-Prince, is widely regarded as Haiti's most powerful military man. For more than a year Haitian exiles have suspected that the airstrip on Paul's ranch, across a valley from Port-au-Prince, is a refueling point for U.S.-bound cargoes of cocaine. Paul's former...
...course, is not just covering the presidential campaign; it is providing much of the substance for it as well. The Dan Rather-George Bush confrontation of four weeks ago has already secured a place in U.S. political folklore. Almost every week since, another TV "moment" has grabbed the spotlight. After Iowa, it was Pat Robertson's bristling response to Tom Brokaw's characterization of him as a "former television evangelist." Last week it was Dole's ill-tempered admonition to Bush -- after another Brokaw question -- to "stop lying about my record...
...team championship will not earn that spotlight. To clinch first place there, a squad must rise with the sun and nail down times in the trial heats. Because, at this Women's Easterns, it's the early bird that gets the title...
...poets included the locally known and respected Vincent Ferrini, Jeannette Maes and R.U. Outavit. But it was Andy Kane, a homeless man living in Boston, who took the spotlight, said Maes. She said Kane's work gave a special focus to the day's events because he "brought together the experiences of the poets and the homeless...
Mecham, 63, stumbled into the spotlight early last year, when -- in his first major act as Governor -- he canceled the state's observation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That move was followed up with a yearlong string of gaffes and biased statements that managed to alienate blacks, women, gays and, finally, the Governor's fellow Republicans. Mecham's reputation hit bottom last month, when he and his brother Willard were indicted by a state grand jury for willfully concealing a $350,000 loan made to his election campaign by a real estate developer. Both pleaded not guilty...