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...questions that now surround DeLay, the most explosive concern his office's close relationship with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is the subject of several investigations centered on his dealings with his Indian tribe clients and the management of tax-exempt charities he set up. Abramoff may have funded, at least indirectly, some of DeLay's most controversial overseas travel. Two weeks ago, TIME reported that when DeLay traveled to Britain in 2000, on a trip ostensibly arranged and paid for by a non-profit organization, his congressional staff turned to Abramoff to arrange the trip, and made extensive demands...
...Nevado del Ruiz may still be far from over. Says the University of Pisa's Barberi: "Other explosions are certain to take place. It may be that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...
...took the Red Army just ten days to surround Berlin, Marshal Georgi Zhukov encircling it from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
Coke may emerge stronger than ever from this adventure. It now flanks Pepsi on two sides, much as a military force might surround an enemy. Says Alexander Kroll, president of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency: "It's the most unusual strategy for launching a flanker brand in history, and it may work." Some are sure it will. "They've backed into one of the most powerful strategic positions in the consumer marketplace," says Emanuel Goldman of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. "After all, they can satisfy the die-hard Coke customers and the consumers who like the sweeter taste...
...after day, the number of detainees grew--first 500, then 800, finally 1,000. Police jeeps and trucks rumbled through the dusty, despair-ridden black townships that surround South Africa's towns and cities, stopping at this house and that. A man was pulled out here, a woman there. The security forces arrested political activists, church workers, students, labor organizers, youthful militants--anyone, it seemed, who might conceivably lead a protest against the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha. At times the detentions seemed carefully planned, at others indiscriminate: near Johannesburg, 22 bus passengers were taken into custody...