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...their loved ones weep. For the second time in two months, furious Italians beat the air with their fists. This, they shout, is too much; the time has come to face down the Mafia, the romanticized clan of criminals they love to hate but refuse to confront. THIS IS ALL-OUT WAR! the headlines scream. What was rarely said last week, as a shocked and shamed Italy tensed for the next blow, was that the Mafia has evolved into the world's foremost crime organization because in its war with the state, only one side is using real weapons...
...Mafia will win until the government declares ...
...move for both Washington and the Palestinians is Rabin's intention to slow the growth of Jewish settlements in the territories. He rejects the all-out freeze that the Palestinians have demanded and the Bush Administration would prefer, but has made plans to abolish financial incentives for building what he calls "political settlements" -- those in populated Palestinian areas that the Labor Party might one day relinquish in a land-for-peace swap...
...estimated cost for these plans ranges from $20 billion to $50 billion a year. Such an ambitious project cannot be carried through without a major fiscal and political effort -- the kind of all-out drive that has rarely been seen in the U.S. except in times of great national crises or foreign challenges. "I think we know that small interventions won't work," says Brookings economist Henry Aaron, "and therefore we have to decide whether this is a problem like going to the moon or winning World War II or Operation Desert Storm, where we say we're going...
...insists it is a third party to a conflict between Karabakh and Azerbaijan and demands that the elected leaders of the enclave's self-declared government participate in all negotiations. Azerbaijan does not recognize Karabakh's leaders or its demands for independence. "Nagorno-Karabakh risks entering a new phase of all-out conflict that could possibly draw in other states," warned Armenian Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, referring to the competition between Turkey and Iran for influence in the region. To avoid that, he said, "there must be a simultaneous dispatch not only of international observers but of peacekeeping troops...