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...Libyan secret agents and embassy staff had planned the attack, but not that it was personally ordered by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. MACEDONIA New Constitution Macedonia?s parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments aimed at improving ethnic Albanian rights, ending weeks of wrangling over a Western-backed peace accord. Mediators hope the changes will defuse the seven-month-old crisis that began when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several villages and warned security forces not to enter. The group...
...established, the sentence may follow—but the punishment for accused terrorists, like that for suspected mass murderers and alleged serial rapists, must come after the finding of guilt. Should even Osama bin Laden be brought before a judge in chains, we would hope that our nation would accord him just punishment through a process that is something more than a glorified lynching...
...Peres insisted that Israel could not leave before Arafat handed over Zeevi's killers - a point hammered home by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Monday when he flatly rejected the Bush administration's call. But the Palestinian Authority has no intention of handing over the gunmen, claiming that the Oslo Accord requires only that they be arrested and tried under Palestinian law. U.S. statements on the issue have not mentioned Israel's extradition demand...
...conservative Republicans any happier with Bush, who has jettisoned some of their more ambitious stimulus proposals, such as cuts in capital gains and corporate tax rates, in hopes of reaching an accord with Democrats. "We're back to triangulation," chortled a congressional Democratic aide, referring to Clinton's technique of cutting deals with the opposition. "The Republicans aren't used to it, and they don't like it." And they said as much to Bush in a testy session Thursday night at the White House. Influential House Republicans, led by majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay, the second...
...country that had been held by ethnic Albanian rebels, but withdrew after meeting what one official called "a hostile reception." Western envoys in the country warned the government not to attempt to re-establish control in contested areas until more progress was made on a two-month-old peace accord. The government has yet to enact key provisions that would upgrade ethnic Albanian rights in the country. TURKEY New Moves Ankara edged a step closer toward membership in the European Union when parliament passed a package of reforms allowing more individual and political freedom. Thirty-four amendments...