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...reapportionment that added seven new congressional seats, and the highest expense of all, TV time. Television has become an absolute necessity for statewide election, since it's the only way to reach huge numbers of voters quickly. "We are putting our elected officials into hock the day they are sworn in," says veteran political consultant Joseph Cerrell. He also notes that a 1954 state assembly campaign cost just $6,000. But then, not too many people...
...evidence of a precrash explosion is overwhelming. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police obtained sworn statements from five witnesses who saw the DC-8 spewing flames before it fell. Judith Parsons, an airport rental-car agent, was warming up her automobiles out in the parking lot when she saw the sky light up. Suddenly "a large orange oval" appeared above the ground, she reported. "It just blew up and went everywhere, burning like cinders falling to the earth...
...good news is that Panama's democratic leaders, boosted by $1 billion worth of U.S. aid, have launched a drug crackdown within their own borders. Panamanian President Guillermo Endara was sworn into office on a U.S. Army base just hours after the American invasion, an act that has come to symbolize the close relationship between the Bush Administration and Noriega's successor. According to dea officials, Endara's willingness to cooperate with international antidrug efforts is helping stanch the flow of cocaine through Panama...
...risks in this trend are considerable: unlike sworn officers, most security guards are not required to inform suspects of their Miranda rights or to obey the Fourth Amendment's restraint on searches. Moreover, the trend toward privatization raises important public-policy issues. "What ever happened to equal protection for all?" asks Harvard criminologist Mark Moore. "If public policing can be bought, then the rich will receive more than the poor. In the end, the public force will erode into a poor people's force." And unless the industry cleans up its own procedures, even rich clients may find themselves...
...putting the finishing touches on a bloodless coup d'etat. Last Thursday, just five days after the army forced the resignation of President Chadli Bendjedid, provoking the dissolution of parliament and cancellation of the elections that had promised to hand Muslim fundamentalists a legislative majority, Mohammed Boudiaf was sworn in as head of a military-backed, five-member Council of State. Boudiaf has splendid credentials -- he is nonpartisan and a hero of Algeria's war for independence from France -- but real power within the ruling council is likely to fall to the country's Defense Minister, Major General Khaled Nezzar...