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...Yemeni attitude naturally sets off alarm bells for U.S. law enforcement personnel who recall their deeply frustrating experiences with the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Despite diplomatic pressure from Washington, the Saudis never allowed U.S. personnel access to the suspects they tried and summarily executed for their part in carrying out the truck bomb attack that killed 19 U.S. military personnel. U.S. investigators, however, have been quick to point out that the Yemeni experience has been nothing like the stonewalling by the Saudis; only that it has fallen well short of what has been requested...
...even a smoking popcorn machine, which caused a fire alarm and a brief evacuation of the building early in the evening, could break the spirit of the crowd...
...fire alarm interrupted a concert in Paine Hall. CFD responded on foot from their headquarters near Memorial Hall. The Radcliffe Pitches continued the concert outside...
What is happening in the Amazon forest sends a dire alarm that needs to be heeded. I have traveled on many occasions in the past 26 years on some of the roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state...
...with the Russians, French and Arabs - and most important, with Saddam himself. The Iraqi dictator's refusal to budge on the question of U.N. arms inspectors makes it unlikely that the sanctions will formally be lifted any time soon. But European and moderate Arab regimes have, to Washington's alarm, adopted increasingly liberal interpretations of those sanctions that threaten to make them meaningless. Booming oil prices have improbably strengthened Saddam's hand, to the point that even Washington may be cautious about provoking Baghdad into turning off the taps on the 3 million barrels it pumps daily and driving...