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After the Kfar Darom attack, Israel sent helicopter gunships to bombard Dahlan's offices. But the reprisal triggered the sort of reaction Barak fears most: Egypt yanked its ambassador from Tel Aviv, and even his U.S. supporters questioned Israel's use of force. In Israel, however, the reaction was different: 100,000 demonstrators converged on Jerusalem to demand a tougher response...
DIED. J. RUSSELL WIGGINS, 96, editor of the Washington Post and U.N. ambassador; in Maine. During his 21-year tenure at the Post, Wiggins turned the laboring paper into a national force. He left journalism at 64 for politics but four months later began a 30-year career at the helm of the often whimsical Maine weekly, the Ellsworth American...
...Israel had responded with air raids on Gaza after two Israelis were killed Monday in a bomb attack on a school bus, but that action had only served to weaken Israel's diplomatic position. Egypt recalled its ambassador in protest of the Israeli air raids, signaling a new chill in relations between the country and its longest-standing Arab peace partner. Even the United States criticized the Israeli action as "disproportionate and excessive." And that Wednesday car bombing proved that heavy Israeli retaliation was unlikely to stop terror attacks...
Washington's scramble to repair Israel's diplomatic bridges to the Arab world may be too little, too late. Defense Secretary William Cohen met Wednesday with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and implored him to reverse Cairo's decision to recall its ambassador from Israel. But having made the dramatic diplomatic gesture in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza Monday night in retaliation for the bombing of a school bus, the Egyptian leader can't very easily reverse it now - not even under pressure from the U.S., which pays Egypt some $2 billion a year to be Israel...
Fuentes, who was the Mexican ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977, said he has seen Mexico grow immensely and faces problems of pollution, dirt, and traffic...