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Guillen was undeterred. His agents took delivery of drugs from Colombia and stored them in a truck at the CIA-funded counternarcotics center near Caracas. Several caches were then flown off to the U.S., and all went well -- until the Miami bust in late 1990. According to DEA sources, McFarlin allegedly shared information with Guillen that the Venezuelan secret police were on to the scheme. The shipments continued, however, until Guillen tried to send in 3,373 lbs. of cocaine at once. The DEA, watching closely, stopped it and pounced...
...case of Lloyd Schlup, 32, a man who has been in prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected piles of documents, affidavits that appear to prove...
...that were the case, Schlup would have little or no hope. He was never an angel. After stealing a neighbor's truck on a prank, Schlup, high on insecticide spray, beat up and raped a fellow inmate at the county jail. "I can't tell you why it happened. There's no excuse for what I did," he said. Sentenced to 14 years' hard labor at Jefferson City, the state's maximum- security prison, Schlup slashed a predatory cellmate in a fight over sex and was sentenced to life in prison...
...management. Calling himself a friend of mining, he nevertheless said he was unwilling to gamble a national treasure -- Yellowstone -- against short-term economic gain. Damage from a failed tailings pond, warned Baucus, could be "cataclysmic" and "irreversible." He didn't say what should be done with the tailings -- truck convoys to NIMBY ("not in my backyard") land are a possibility -- but if an on-the-mountain tailings pond is necessary, mine plans "should be abandoned...