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Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.

So far from buying off welfare rebels by that U-turn, they seem to have been emboldened.

She said "cakeism, profligacy and hubris at the very top" led to "a failure to reign in expenditure" and that she "chose not to be bought off".

Still others, just as exhausted by high murder and kidnapping rates, and having lost confidence in Mexican law enforcement often bought off by criminals, have started to lean toward welcoming U.S. troops.

But the prosecution rejected that claim, saying the combined effects of alcohol and a "fixation" with diazepam, which he was buying off the streets, had sent him into a violent rage.