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...arguments for making this a security priority seem sound enough. The question that comes to mind, however, is the administration's timing. Administration officials say they've known all along that AIDS could lead to social unrest in the developing world. Yet they've waited until this year to declare this a security problem, and it took them nearly three months to make the NSC's involvement publicly known. It's certainly ripe fodder for conspiracy theorists that the story detailing the administration's aggressive plan to attack AIDS appeared on the front page of Washington's paper of record...
...sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next year. The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook will cover such things as hostage situations and civil unrest. Meanwhile the Survival Handbook is generating other spin-offs, including a calendar that lists such notable milestones as when the first blood transfusion was administered and when Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed...
...even as Reno held that sanction over Lazaro, the exiles held one over her: the threat of ugly unrest, which Reno, who was once the top state prosecutor in Miami, wants to avoid at all costs. "She doesn't want to end her career with another Waco," says a Justice official. Responding to Mayor Penelas' pandering, Reno shot back that "the people I know in the Cuban community believe in the rule of law." But late last week she yet again extended the deadline for Lazaro to sign a deal, and negotiations were set to resume this week...
...upcoming state elections. But the Social Democrats' top brass weren't gloating Wednesday when CDU chief Wolfgang Schaeuble resigned over the campaign-funding scandal centered around Kohl. The $20 million fine levied at the CDU for the fund-raising improprieties could bankrupt the party - and that could mean unrest in the entire political system...
...years ago - comes along. "The impression among international leaders is that they have all bent over backwards to help Ecuador, and Ecuador hasn't done anything to help itself," says McGirk. "The new president will have such a hard time raising money to alleviate the social unrest that it seems as though he'll be constantly looking at his watch." Indeed, while Noboa will have a period of goodwill to restore fiscal order, the Ecuadorian people have shown the limits of their patience...