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...voice was resonant, his accent lilting, his demeanor disarmingly gentle. But his words carried a sting. "We do not want our chains comfortable," South Africa's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. "We want them removed." The black clergyman, who will travel to Oslo this week to accept the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, assailed the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa as "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian." "We shall be free," he declared. "And we shall remember who helped us become free." Breaking their own rules, the subcommittee members gave...
...list, Mitterrand said with an impatient smile, "If some thing happens, we will let you know." Said Kohl: "We will wait to see the developments [of the Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played the Egyptian sting. Said he: "Don't you think that Mubarak is using the affair for his own ends? He has a special ax of his own to grind with Libya...
...different result in the November vote came on the heels of Piro's highly publicized federal extortion and conspiracy trial. Piro was granted a mistrial on October 13 after he claimed that he was entrapped in an FBI sting operation...
...without its problems. At best, the Coalition's campaign for local legislation will mean fewer handgun-related killings; at worst, it will hamper the Coalition's national strategy and delay further the resolution of the issue by providing a target for what has proven to be a lethal sting--the counterattack of the NRA and other pro-gun groups...
Star Quest took more than three years to complete. In one elaborate sting, an FBI agent entertained hoodlums on a luxury yacht while posing as a high-rolling fence seeking to buy stolen goods. In addition, more than two dozen victims of extortion were induced to cooperate. Attorney General William French Smith announced "the decimation of organized-crime leadership" in the nation. That assessment may have been grandiose, but the arrests did mean that pressure on the Mafia was continuing in both the U.S. and Italy. Last week Italian police arrested 54 organized-crime members, bringing the total detained there...