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Just as President Bush plans to visit Central America, the demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...
...scandal began two weeks ago when the bodies of the congressmen, who were representatives to the Central American parliament, and their driver were found bullet-ridden and charred on an abandoned dirt road in Guatemala. Days later, four Guatemalan policemen - including the head of the organized crime investigation unit - were accused of the murders. But before they could be tried for the crimes, the four were assassinated inside their maximum-security prison cell, left face down in a pool of blood, shot with their throats slit. Authorities and opposition politicians in Guatemala say the policemen were part of a group...
...voting for representatives who then make decisions for us, we cede them our moral agency. If our Congressmen permit the military to employ torture, there is nothing we can do to stop it, save vote them out of office in a few years...
...asserted that the results of the scientists’ research emphasized the possibility of “creating cell lines for the study and treatment of disease without the many ethical dilemmas associated with the creation and destruction of embryos.” In a letter addressed to two Congressmen, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Kevin C. Eggan, Medical School Assistant Professor Chad A. Cowan, and Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton wrote that they were “surprised” to see their work “used to support arguments that research...
Regan seems determined to stay on. He held his own session with Congressmen last week in which he claimed the President needed his services in preparing the State of the Union message and with work on the new budget. He appeared to take a certain gritty pride in toughing out the controversy. "I'm really taking the heat now," he said. "It goes with that corner office." A man who clearly cherishes power, Regan is even said to have joked last week about "people who thought they could get rid of me that easily...