Question: “Under what international law do we have a right to attempt to destabilize the constitutionally elected government of another country?” Answer: “l am not going to pass judgment on whether it is permitted or authorized under international law. It is a recognized fact that historically as well as presently, such actions are taken in the best interest of the countries involved.” That blunt response by President Gerald Ford at his press conference last week was either remarkably careless or remarkably candid
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Let Them In: How Brazilians Could Help the U.S. Economy
Everyone should love Brazilian tourists. They spend more per capita than any other nationality.
Spain Seeks Justice for Jesuits Killed in El Salvador’s Civil War
Carlos Martn Bar believes that his brother Ignacio knew he was about to be killed. The night before his murder Nov.
Report: The Global War on Drugs Has Failed. Is It Time to Legalize?
The global war against drugs is fought seemingly every day in the jungles of Colombia and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, the inner cities of the U.S. and the trafficking corridors of Central America.
Do Sex Workers in Mexico City Need Their Own District?
As twilight falls over Mexico City’s Buenavista neighborhood, the traditional night shift begins. A woman in suspenders and a pink dress takes up right outside the doors of an American-owned bank.
Business: Oil: What’s Left out There
A new study delays doomsday, but there is still a crisisThe visions of an imminent energy Armageddon that seemed so plausible right after the 1973 Arab oil embargo have gradually faded, but the serious questions remain: How much oil does the world have left?
Essay: The Shoes of Imelda Marcos
A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his. –William James, 1890 The palace doors came loose on their hinges, and the inventory began tumbling out of the overstuffed world of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
Is Time Running Out to Find Soldiers’ Remains in Vietnam?
Grief hangs over the frail face of Bui Thi Me, a communist intellectual contemplating the deaths of three of her sons.
One Year After the Bailout, Greece is Still Hurting
Konstantinos Sourmelis, a 56-year-old technician for OSE, Greece’s state-owned railway, marched to central Athens on Wednesday to send parliament a simple message: Stop selling out the country. Like the thousands of other demonstrators who protested in the country’s latest general strike, Sourmelis accuses the government of scapegoating OSE and public utilities as part of its proposed privatization plan, the next in a string of attempts to raise the billions that Greece owes foreign creditors
Oil: Boom in Ohio
Across the rolling farmlands of central Ohio's Morrow County last week lumbered heavy trucks laden with pipe. In the county's once-slumbering towns —Mt