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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Minister Michael Heseltine, the anti-Thatcher movement was based less on sharp policy differences than on the growing conviction that the Prime Minister's continued leadership seemed certain to lose the Tories the next general election, which must be held before mid-1992. Opinion polls, giving Labour a 14-point lead, showed that Heseltine would do better than Thatcher as Tory standard bearer. Accordingly, in a first-round vote by the 372 Conservative Members of Parliament, Heseltine won 152 to Thatcher's 204; under the complicated leadership formula, that was just enough, with 16 abstentions, to force a second ballot...
...Drug Enforcement Administration. He first contributed to a major TIME story on drugs in 1981, when we examined cocaine. This week he takes a look at the empire of Los Angeles superdealer Bo Bennett. Beaty covered Bennett's trial, but also spent months talking to drug traffickers. "At one point," he says, "I actually presided over a conference, with people at all levels of the business explaining to me how it works." Gaining their confidence was not easy. Beaty, who once went through 10 days of screening before being allowed to meet with Bolivian coca baron Roberto Suarez Gomez, knows...
...surprising then that at one point last spring more than a dozen urban school systems were looking for new leaders. More than half of the 45 members of the Council of the Great City Schools, a consortium of urban school districts, have superintendents in their first or second year on the job. "No private industry could effectively survive this kind of turnover," says former Boston superintendent Laval Wilson, who left his position earlier this year. Says Joan Raymond, superintendent of Houston's schools: "The shortage is critical. I must hear 10 times a day, 'I wouldn't want your...
Central America. With Mexico now the chief entry point for U.S.-bound cocaine, the entire region is being crisscrossed with routes for ferrying the drug northward. Smuggling is up sharply in Guatemala, whose remote mountains and vast jungles provide concealment for traffickers along the 540-mile border with Mexico. This year Guatemalan authorities have confiscated 2.5 tons of coke, a fivefold increase from two years ago. Police believe Panamanian traffickers are trying to relocate and turn Guatemala into a "golden bridge for their goods...
...other point on that. Once the current crisis is over, will the gulf states be as generous with regard to the Palestinians and the P.L.O. as they have been in the past...