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...using the law to seize dirty money from attorneys who ought to know better. But critics believe they see darker tactics at work. The feds "usually won't invoke forfeiture if you make a plea bargain," observes Miami lawyer Joel Hirschhorn. "But the minute you plead not guilty, they threaten you with going after the fee." Noriega's lawyers argue that the freezing of his assets may be part of just such a plea- bargaining ploy. They say it is preposterous for prosecutors to claim that Noriega's money came only from drugs...
Butt's crew must try to find that feeling of "draining the tank" when it rowsagain in two weeks at the Eastern Sprints inWorcester. There is a good chance that Butt mayrearrange lineups or at least threaten to in hopesof lighting a fire under his oarsmen...
...very clear that today's commercial electronics are higher performance, lower cost and higher quality than the same goods built by defense contractors," says Jacques Gansler, a Washington- based defense economist. Moreover, much of American's innovative brainpower will turn to designing products that enhance, rather than threaten, human lives. If inventors working for the military and space programs could create everything from bulletproof plastic to magnetic-resonance scanners, they could probably come up with consumer products that would put even Sony to shame...
...Brazil's most unflinching environmentalist. Lutzenberger aroused the anger of the administration of former President Jose Sarney by daring to declare publicly that the rest of the world had a legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
...long as a nation, in making its own decisions democratically, does not threaten its neighbors (a condition that a unified Germany, for example, would have to meet), it should be free to choose. Certainly Lithuania meets that test. That is why we are all pulling for Lithuania...