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...move to Energy might suit Richardson?s domestic political ambitions, adds TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, but ?the counter-argument among his aides is that the Energy job requires a lot of unpopular decisions on issues such as nuclear waste.? All that Mike McCurry would offer on the matter yesterday was, ?I haven?t heard the President finalize any recommendations for that cabinet vacancy.? The big tease...
...surprised and shocked to read "Weapons of Torture" [WORLD, April 6], which described the international sale of electric-shock devices that can be used to abuse prisoners. Your writer Douglas Waller complains about the availability of stun weapons to the ordinary public but then gives names, manufacturers, locations and descriptions of the weapons! Maybe you didn't intend this to be a torture-weapons catalog, but it can serve as one. Waller made life easy for crooks and regimes that are looking for places to obtain these weapons! JACQUELINE CANTILLO Bogota...
...Chile, but it was their government that was more concerned about Washington. ?Ever since last year?s fast-track vote, the White House has been energetically trying to alter the Latin American perception that the United States has become a weak partner in the region,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Clinton?s defeat on fast-track left him without the authority to expedite Chile?s admission into NAFTA...
...lesser sentence had law enforcement officials not breached international convention by failing to inform the Paraguayan consulate of his arrest. Madeleine Albright made a similar appeal to Gilmore. ?The State Department intervened because it has to protect the interests of U.S. citizens living overseas,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. ?They didn?t want this to be taken as an excuse by foreign governments to deny U.S. citizens the right to contact their consulate if they get into trouble.? Governor Gilmore?s response was that delaying the execution would transfer authority from American courts to international courts...
...Douglas Waller. With reporting by Elaine Shannon/Washington