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International issues--Central and South America, the Soviet Union and the Middle East--continue to haunt this administration and this country. Reagan's dealings with Iran left the United States adrift. Money--not morality--was Reagan's chief diplomatic weapon...
...Northern Ireland last week. Shots rang out from a tower manned by British soldiers and McAnspie crumpled to the ground, fatally wounded. The British army promptly took into custody the man who fired the gun, Grenadier Guardsman David Jonathan Holden, 18. Holden claimed he had accidentally set off his weapon and that McAnespie was killed by a ricocheting bullet...
...Reagan Administration prefers to push for tough extradition treaties that can put drug thugs away in U.S. prisons. Extradition appears to be one weapon that the narcotraficantes truly fear. A cartel-sponsored group calling itself the Extraditables has waged a campaign of intimidation against law- enforcement officials, taking as its motto "We prefer a grave in Colombia to a jail in the United States." Although a frightened Colombian Supreme Court struck down the country's extradition treaty with the U.S. last June, even talk of extradition sends the cartel into a fury. On Jan. 24, Colombia's drug lords declared...
...your family in prison. And, as I'm told, my mother was tortured by the Gestapo. And when she told me this, I was in the army-we had a draft army during the war. And I says, `I see no reason to defend this system with a weapon,'" Kluncker says...
...footsteps of giants, isn't it odd that George Bush has left no footprints at all? It's almost like he was never there." This TV commercial had not been used, but Dole aides artfully leaked news of its existence last week. They called it their "tactical nuclear weapon," ready to air if Bush tried any negative ploy or increased his lead going into New Hampshire. Dole, once enthusiastic about the ad, lost his stomach for it by the end of last week. Perhaps he knew that Bush was ready with a counter-ad. It shows a two-faced Dole...