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...Hurtado, Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari seems determined to crack down on the drug lords. In the past 21 months, federal judicial police have confiscated 80,000 kilos of cocaine, more than was seized during De la Madrid's entire six-year term. But the offensive could stall. Last month Salinas announced the resignation of his drug czar, Javier Coello Trejo. Reason: alleged human-rights abuses by police, including murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, In Latin America | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...most recent carving, found on a stall door, was placed in the same location where the first such mark had been, according to Matthews proctor Charles Matt. After a student reported the swastika Monday morning, a maintenance crew painted over the mark immediately, Matt said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

Vandals carved swastikas on the door of a Matthews North bathroom stall earlier this month, causing a University official to send letters condemning the act to dorm residents...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Anti-Semitic Mark Found In Matthews | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

Maintenance workers painted over a swastika on a Matthews men's room stall door on October 12, said the letter written by Associate Dean W. C. Burris Young '55, the South Yard senior adviser. Another swastika appeared a few days later, according to the letter...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Anti-Semitic Mark Found In Matthews | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

...once, Aquino acted swiftly. Instead of attempting to stall Noble with negotiations -- standard procedure in almost all previous uprisings -- armed forces Chief of Staff General Renato de Villa ordered air force overflights and bombings to level the main rebel encampment. Aquino brusquely dismissed the threat. "This is not a coup," she told reporters. "It is not spreading." Late last week De Villa declared the uprising a failure as the leader of the uprising surrendered. Asked about the loyalty of the rest of the military, De Villa said, "They will not readily join such a foolish adventure." But will they behave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Mutiny in Mindanao | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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