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After Escobar narrowly escaped capture in an army raid on one of his estates last year, Colombian officials suspected that he might have been tipped off by Medina. A military surveillance team subsequently was assigned to tail the general. The spying operation reportedly established ties between Medina and both Escobar and another drug baron, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano." Apparently not certain that the evidence would hold up in court, the government allowed Medina to retire. Two days after Medina's successor, General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla, took over, the National Police launched Operation Primavera, the most successful strike...
...Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar...
Immediately after the raid, the government announced it had found 200 automatic weapons and 30,000 rounds of ammunition in Hernandez's house. Hernandez and his colleagues were quickly flown to Mexico City, where they were arraigned on charges of illegally possessing weapons, resisting arrest and killing a police officer...
...raid, coming just over a month after President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office following a campaign that promised major political and economic reforms, fueled speculation that Hernandez's arrest was the government's opening shot in its efforts to control the country's powerful unions. For much of its 59 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) has given considerable autonomy to union leaders in exchange for industrial peace and delivering votes at election time...
...when all else fails, a large can of Raid...