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...Fuhrman may be the one to sustain the most lasting damage. Though he emerged from the cross-examination remarkably unscathed, months of poisonous publicity have made him a symbol of all that is wrong with the Los Angeles police department and branded him a vicious racist. Yet interviews with many of Fuhrman's colleagues and friends suggest that he is a considerably more complex character than the one so far presented to the public...
...handful of foreign journalists were permitted in the country last week under government protection. Even so, the visit offered a rare glimpse inside the maelstrom of a country where violence on both the Islamist and government sides has closed the door to outsiders, leaving Algeria to conduct its vicious hidden war in private...
Since those elections were annulled, the country has been trapped in a vicious spiral of atrocity and reprisal in which each new level of military repression only accelerates the radicalization of Islamic sympathizers. Now the three-year campaign of assassination and sabotage between government and guerrillas has risen to the point where the lives of up to 1,000 victims are snuffed out every week. Together with an economic tailspin that has reduced the gross domestic product 8%, the violence has ushered in a profound social and political paralysis from which it seems all but impossible to break free...
...James Exon (D-Neb.) announced that he would not seek a fourth term in 1996, throwing a little sand on Democratic hopes to retake the Senate. Republicans now hold a 54-46 majority. Exon, who first won the seat in 1978, cited "the ever-increasing vicious polarization of the electorate" as a major reason for his departure. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who chairs the national Republican senatorial committee, said winning Exon's seat would be a GOP priority. D'Amato's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, now has to comb his largely Republican state...
...Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories about his wife Wendy, a third-generation Korean American, who served as head...