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The Opposition Struggles In MexicoSuzanne BilelloMEXICO CITY-In the wake of last July’s controversial presidential election, center-left opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas could readily muster 200,000 supporters to fill Mexico City’s central plaza to rally against the ruling party.
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Powell At The Supreme CourtWil HaygoodFlorida Congressman Claude Pepper huddled quickly with other colleagues after the U.S. House voted to exclude Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. on March 1, 1967. Powell was the first House member to suffer such a fate since 1919, when the House excluded Victor Berger, charged with violation of the Espionage Act. Powell immediately threatened to fight his ouster in federal court. Pepper suggested to House Speaker John McCormack that they go to New York City and talk with Bruce Bromley about handling the Powell legal challenge.
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The Age Of Electronic GovernmentDavid MorrisseyIt began as a routine Freedom of Information Act request but ended in a tangle, a computerized Catch-22.
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America’s Little War Becomes A NightmareWilliam Prochnau…Browne, the lone-wolf correspondent for the Associated Press, shook his head to clear it. He checked the cheap Minolta camera New York finally had sent him to replace his battered old Richo reflex and quickly followed the Buddhists out into the street…
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Land Of Dreamers: What Haitians WantPhotos and Text by Maggie Steber"…Then there is the mysterious something foreigners are always being told they can never fathom: "la psychologie Haitienne.". Deep in the psyche of Haiti lies a violence that goes beyond violence. That this is so is demonstrated by nearly five centuries of history dominated at every turn by death and terror. Some have written and analyzed that Haiti is plagued with the unusual extent to which paranoia, well-systematized delusions of persecution and grandeur…seems to afflict peasants and the elite alike…Haiti, in some dream, in some nightmare, is imprisoned in its past."
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