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Narcotics may come through Mexico, but the destination point is in the U.S. [WORLD, March 10]. Authorities in Mexico may look the other way when, loaded with drugs, a plane takes off or a truck passes through, but what happens when it crosses the border into the U.S.? And when it is unloaded? Is it visible only south of the border? Every blind officer in Mexico must have a matching blind official in the U.S. EDGAR BECERRA Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...gangsta rap song. More than 1,700 people crowded into the Peterson Automotive Museum, where the party was being held, and the crush was too much. Around midnight the fire marshal ordered the festivities shut down. Wallace went to his truck. A friend took the wheel of the GMC Suburban, and the rapper got into the passenger seat (he didn't have a driver's license). Moments after they left the parking lot, according to witnesses, a lone gunman in a passing car fired several shots from a 9-mm handgun through the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Earlier this year, Commission Executive Officer Richard V. Scali held a meeting with many of the city's disposal companies to address several issues of concern, including the repeated violation of Cambridge's noise ordinance--requiring pick-up after 7 a.m.--by garbage truck drivers...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Garbage Disposal Trucks Irk City Residents | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...administration "will work to simplify the tax code" but did not provide details. Details, of course are what Republicans are only too happy to provide. According to Dick Armey, Americans spend 5.4 billion hours a year complying with the tax code, more than is spent building every car, truck and van in the U.S. Rather than upgrade the computer system to deal with a complicated tax structure, the GOP says that the government should simplify the existing code. "We have as an objective ending the Internal Revenue Service as we know it," Newt Gingrich said in Congress Monday. Whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning up the IRS Mess | 3/18/1997 | See Source »

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