Calling earth, calling earth: the Noriega trial

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Noriega's trial for cocaine smuggling in Miami is far from the sure thing prosecutors had led Americans to believe. The evidence against Noriega is largely hearsay. An acquittal would be very embarrassing to the Bush Administration, which ordered the invasion that captured him.

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Big bad smell: Turkey

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Corruption in the Turkish government, which many in the country have suspected for some time, seems to have been confirmed by an automobile crash. The auto carried a police chief, a right-wing member of the mafia, a beauty queen, and a Kurdish militia baron.

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Rotten eggs unbroken

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The Oct 2001 overturning of convictions for drug trafficking and money laundering has cast doubt on Turkey's campaign to eradicate corruption in high places. The case centred on officials' and politicians' links with organized crime.

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