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Soviet television viewers who watched the news one night last month glimpsed something extraordinary. There, on the screen, appeared scenes of a drug bust in Moscow, complete with pictures of needles and an unidentified white powder. While the camera showed police rushing into an apartment and arresting its occupants, an announcer explained how the suspects had tried to hide the goods, but to no avail...
That report is just one more example of Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, in the media. Over the past year the state-run press has been exploring the problems of Soviet society with unprecedented candor, discussing such once forbidden topics as drug abuse, prostitution and urban blight. In addition, newspapers and TV have covered the kinds of national catastrophes?an earthquake, an attempted airplane hijacking and the sinking of a Soviet submarine?that were once hushed...
...downed C-123K had been used in 1984 by the CIA and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration in a sting operation designed to show that the Sandinistas were dealing in cocaine. The CIA's hand is evident in other secret air operations related to the Nicaragua conflict. Southern Air Transport is a Miami firm that was wholly controlled by the CIA until 1972. The State Department confirmed that it had used Southern Air to fly part of the legal $27 million in nonmilitary supplies from the U.S. to the contras. The department said it had no responsibility for the fact...
Perot has slain dragons closer to home. In 1979 Texas Governor Bill Clements asked him to lead a local campaign against drugs. Perot spent more than $1 million of his own money on the effort, which resulted in laws that permit seizure of drug runners' assets. In 1983 he was named head of the Texas Governor's Select Committee on Public Education. In a 1˝-year fight, Perot prodded the legislature to install teacher-competency tests and a "no pass, no play" rule for high school athletes. The chairman of the state board of education labeled Perot a "dangerous...
...lately a grim pall has blanketed the western Canadian city of 2.2 million, for reasons far worse than the freak winter storms. The harrowing details of a grotesque serial killer case are bringing to the surface the city's seamy underworld, usually confined to the squalid 10-block open drug and sex market known as the Downtown Eastside...