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...personnel on a drug that doesn't harm anyone physically, doesn't make people harm each other and isn't corrupting national governments in the tropics should make one wonder if in fact the folks on Constitution Ave. haven't been dipping into the stuff they've been sworn to protect us from...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Scapegoats, Sentencing, and LSD | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

Louis Freeh was sworn in as the director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest August 29-September 4 | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

That leaders of these sworn enemies should have made such a leap of faith into the unknown proves that history, of which the Holy Land has a surfeit, at long last is losing its death grip on them. For nearly 100 years, Jews and Arabs have been like Jacob and Esau, battling in the womb for the rights of the firstborn in their ancient motherland. The accommodation they announced last week, though still very rough and capable of igniting bonfires of violence among opponents of compromise, had one transcendent merit. A deal negotiated in secret by foes who had chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Risking Peace | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...calling a stay-at-home protest. The Nigerian Labor Congress announced a general strike by its 4 million members, including oilworkers, starting Saturday. Both groups say they will keep demonstrating until Abiola, who vowed to return to Lagos this week and begin consultations to form a new government, is sworn in as President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamed By Their Nation | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...wrote their platforms: the Social Democratic Party tilted a bit to the left, the National Republican Convention leaned the same degree to the right. He handpicked their presidential candidates. But when Moshood Abiola, the millionaire industrialist candidate of the Social Democrats, won the election and insisted that he be sworn in as President on Aug. 27, Babangida voided the vote, claiming widespread fraud and vote tampering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Silence | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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