APF Reporter Vol. 16 #2

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	Pushing Treatment For Prisoners Steve Bogira CHICAGO--A tale of two junkies: Dwight Walker sat in his cell in the Cook County Jail last September, aching, cramping, and spitting up, and worrying about how much time he'd get for his robberies.
	Good Intentions Gone Awry: The U.N. Leaves Cambodia Judith Coburn CAMBODIA--Phnom Penh--Micheline LaJoie, a forty-something, brassy blonde former real estate agent from Quebec, eased her hulking white Land Cruiser through curtains of bamboo into the Khmer Rouge village of Chrey Leung. Two weeks before, the Khmer Rouge had taken four United Nations peacekeepers and their Cambodian interpreter hostage here; they were cut loose the next day and warned to stay out of the village. But voter registration had just ended for Cambodia's first "democratic" elections and this was one of the few Khmer Rouge villages where peasants had signed up. LaJoie, the top UN electoral official in this remote district near the Vietnamese border, wanted to fly the UN flag and keep her lines open to the Khmer Rouge.
	Revisiting the Thomas-Hill Hearings Florence Graves Like the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the Vietnam war, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings have become a defining event in history that promises to be be reexamined, replayed and reevaluated for decades to come.
	Bad Comedy at America's Biggest Environmental Mess Blaine Harden HANFORD, Washington -- The mulberries happened to be ripe. They caught the eye of a hell-raising physicist by the name of Norm Buske. He picked a quart and rushed home to make what turned out to be high-anxiety jam.
	Willie Brown: The Members' Speaker James D. Richardson SAN FRANCISCO -- Willie Brown, his tuxedo glistening in the spotlight, bounced onto a stage in the ornate ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel, the grandiose citadel of San Francisco's old-moneyed establishment. California's most powerful politician began introducing his after-dinner entertainment and his guests definitely would not be disappointed. On Brown's cue, Ray Charles took stage, backed by the Oakland Symphony Orchestra.
	Gang Life In Los Angeles: The East Side Story Joseph Rodriguez I see Los Angeles as a post-modern Wild West where everyone has a gun and they use it. It is like an uncontrolled and slightly scary place, a land of dreams and beauty, playing by its own rules.
	Houston Dollars Fuel The Human Traffic from Guatemala Roberto Suro One morning in September, 1978 Juan L. Chanax set out from his village in the Guatemalan highlands of Totonicapan and began a voyage with consequences still unfolding in unimaginable ways. A weaver's son and a good weaver himself, Juan made one of the few decisions allowed to ordinary men that can change the history of nations. He decided to move.