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...Whether he did anything in 1982 to push Thomas Barrack into a job as Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior. Barrack had helped sell the Meeses' California home after they moved to Washington...
...each 2.5 acres planted in the leaf. The local poseros, or processors, who grind the leaves into paste, are paid even better, which enables them to . acquire four-wheel-drive vehicles and color television sets. "It is an unbalanced and unfair fight," says Juan Carlos Duran, Bolivia's Interior and Justice Minister. "Drug kingpins work in terms of millions of dollars, while we have to do it in terms of cents...
...probably right. At the very least, his sober jeremiad is punctuated by numerous up-to-date examples of wretched excess: fur coats for Cabbage Patch dolls, a stretch limousine for rent in Los Angeles that boasts a hot tub and a helicopter pad, a Manhattan interior decorator who charges his clients $500 to toss throw pillows artistically around a drawing room. The customers for these esoteric goods and services spring from what Lapham calls the "equestrian class," which has multiplied impressively during the decades of postwar American prosperity and which "comprises all those who can afford to ride rather than...
...several dozen youths accused of evading the military draft. Some 20 protesters, mostly relatives of the young men taken into custody, surged through the streets chanting "Join us." The mob swelled to about 1,000, stoned a police station and torched several government-owned vehicles. To quell the disturbances, Interior Minister Tomas Borge personally led a force of paramilitary units from the capital of Managua. Authorities detained 16 antigovernment activists...
Over intersession, the dining area adjacent to the Union's main dining hall was closed as the room's venetian blinds were replaced by drapes, an indoor-outdoor green carpet was installed, and the interior was repainted, said Michael Sidabrias, the supervisor of the Union staff. Workers brought in plants on February 3, and future plans include putting up a chandelier, Sidabrias said...