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Editorial Rule #1: In the land of Cortney and the Magician, Life and Death are identical twins. Although usually connected at the hip or some other appendage, they occasionally split from each other. Like a divorce, they are no longer whole, but wonder through the woods until they once again find each other, and reattach themselves at the hip or some other appendage...
...elections, was accused of ordering the murder of opponents, and was subjected to journalistic exposes of his drug running and arms smuggling. But the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration stood by him, even as the DEA developed the evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that the millions he was by then receiving from the Medellin...
...this point I still don't know what to believe. I still wonder what is the truth," said John Vajdic, who lives across the street from the Stuarts' slate-blue, split-entry home, which still had a holiday wreath on the door yesterday...
...same time, East European agencies reported, Ceausescu's fall was sealed at a meeting with his security chiefs. Defense Minister Vasile Milea apparently said that his troops would refuse to fire on their countrymen. There seemed to be a split among the Securitate commanders, with only some favoring a continued crackdown. Party spokesmen claimed that Milea then committed suicide, but it was more likely that he was shot by Securitate men. Next morning an unidentified general appeared on television to say, "I am very sorry that my friend the Minister died. It is a lie that he committed suicide." With...
...opposing the removal from the Soviet constitution of Article 6, which gives the Communist Party a monopoly on political power. A confrontation looms with the Baltic states over their intention to cancel Article 6 and declare their own communist parties independent. The Lithuanian party voted last week to split from Moscow and declared its intention to create "an independent, democratic Lithuanian state." One-party rule, Gorbachev says, is vital to the success of perestroika. He opposed debate on the issue at the opening of the People's Congress in mid-December, saying it would have to wait until constitutional revision...