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...organized a high-level conference in London this month to discuss rapid movement toward a "final status" agreement, a course firmly rejected by Sharon. Mindful of that, the British leader also showed his support for Sharon's opponent in this month's Israeli election, dovish Labor Party leader Amram Mitznah, by inviting him to 10 Downing Street. Following Sunday's bombing, however, Sharon banned Palestinian representatives from traveling to Blair's conference, drawing an angry response from London. Sharon won't mind, of course, as long as he keeps the White House in his corner. And that may mean treading...
THOMAS COEX/AFP TAKING AIM: An Israeli soldier on patrol in Bethlehem Alone among mainstream Israeli politicians, Amram Mitzna sports a beard. Sectarians - Israeli Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and settlers - grow hair on their chins, but the rest of the political spectrum is clean-shaven. So the whiskers of Mitzna, who was picked last week to lead the Labor Party into national elections in January, have come to symbolize the enigma of this newcomer. Is there a strong, decisive chin beneath the fuzz, or is he soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find...
...Eliezer also faces a primary challenge from legislator Haim Ramon and Haifa mayor Amram Mitzna, and he currently trails both men in the polls. Some Israeli analysts speculate that his sudden choice of the path of confrontation with Sharon is motivated in no small part by his desire to see off challengers within his own party. But it remains to be seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts...
...Israelis were not treated with great warmth during their three weeks in federal custody. Sabag and the only other woman in the group, Shulamit Amram, spent four hours handcuffed to a chair, some in the group were administered polygraph tests without counsel present, and none of them could contact their families because the prison where they were detained doesn't allow international collect calls. The reasons behind their detention: in March, employees in federal office buildings around the country complained to authorities about another group of Israeli students who represented themselves as selling art but seemed uncommonly interested in gaining...
Aggrieved customers tell of dates who were overaged, overweight, underemployed and sometimes already married. One woman recalled an escort who had "dyed bright-orange hair," while another said she was matched with "a man who had a criminal record." For such bottom-drawer Romeos, Amram allegedly charged anywhere from $1,250 to $20,000, far in excess of New York's $250 price limit on social-referral services. Amram's response: "I never break the law." The attorney general's lawsuit seeks restitution of any overcharges and an end to Amram's matchmaking in New York...