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...recounts Partridge. "They said they wanted to die. They were all suicidal." The local Innu Council immediately chartered a plane to take the youngsters, under police escort, to a group home near Goose Bay, 186 miles to the south. Later, three more gasoline-sniffing youths were evacuated to await transfer to another native rehabilitation center...
There is some question whether the CIA spooks who have spent their careers counting crates on the docks of Soviet ports can transfer those skills to deciphering the newest details of Fujitsu's latest supercomputer or the immediate implications of a hike in German interest rates. And even if they can, the bigger issue may be whether any short-term gains by some U.S. corporations will offset the potential losses in civil liberties at home and friendships abroad. In the end, that price may be judged too high...
From the early 1980s on, the Justice Department received hundreds of tips and complaints about the criminal dealings of this multinational bank, but apparently took no action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
...MOUNTING A NEW CAMPAIGN to unseat Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's mercurial dictator for 27 years. In the wake of bloody unrest that killed at least 1,000 people, the U.S., Belgium and France presented a demarche in Kinshasa, demanding that the President abide by an earlier commitment to transfer power to a transitional government headed by Etienne Tshisekedi. But Mobutu rejected the ultimatum, and its authors evidently plan to back it up through new economic pressure rather than by force. Despite an open plea by Tshisekedi for military intervention, about 700 French and Belgian troops sent to evacuate...
Davis said he does not believe that students transfer out of houses because of perceived gender imbalances...