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...rotate the chairmanship of Alliance among DEA, Customs and the Border Patrol. DEA, an arm of the Justice Department, clears all search warrants. The other agencies have accused DEA of moving slowly when its agents are not part of the action. Suspected drug caches, and the dealers, sometimes vanish before the papers are in hand to make a raid. "The DEA won't work with us," complains a Customs agent in Texas. "We can't even talk to them...
...second question is this: If the wild animals of Africa vanish from the face of the earth, what, exactly, will have been lost...
...earthly paradise, a dream kingdom where the actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY...
...Italy many a financial imbroglio has begun to emerge, only to vanish in the political sands. But governments must beware of dark conspiracies involving secret societies. The scandal surrounding the mysterious "P-2" Masonic lodge in 1981 entangled Cabinet ministers and military officers in a web of tax evasion and political intrigue. The uproar eventually toppled the Christian Democrat-led coalition government of Arnaldo Forlani, but no official was ever convicted, and Forlani is now back in government service...
...against him have suddenly lost their enthusiasm and much of their memory. It would be understandable for someone in Giacalone's position to worry about safety. "The thought does not even cross my mind," she says. "It's not Diane Giacalone that matters. It's the system. If I vanish, another prosecutor will be ready to try the case within a month. And let's not kid ourselves about who has more resources." She says the fact that she is Italian and from the same neighborhood as Gotti has nothing to do with her zeal to prosecute the Mafia...