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...antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into a bus filled with soldiers in Megiddo junction in northern Israel, killing 17 passengers and injuring 40 others. The death toll is the highest number within Israel since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast...
...think in one sense that Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education,” West said on Smiley’s show. “He acts like a bull in a china shop; he acts like a bully in a very delicate and dangerous situation...
...departure, some scholars in the field argue, Harvard’s department loses its only public activist. Just days before Princeton announced that West would join its ranks next year, the professor was arrested in front of the State Department in Washington as part of a protest of Ariel Sharon’s policies against the Palestinians. West also heads up the exploratory committee for minority activist Al Sharpton’s 2004 presidential...
...sending troops and tanks to once again attack Arafat in his office, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reiterating his demand that Arafat relinquish power as a precondition for progress. But targeting Arafat is, in many ways, a symbolic response for the Israelis to a day-to-day security crisis which has scarcely eased since "Operation Defensive Shield" and the ongoing Israeli operations in West Bank towns that have continued ever since. While some of them support the idea, Israel's security chiefs don't believe that getting rid of Arafat will stop terror attacks. The Palestinian leader's political popularity...
...been meeting with Palestinian officials this week to press for the creation of a single PA security force dedicated to clamping down on terror attacks, and warning that if he fails to create an effective deterrent to terror attacks, Arafat will be left alone to face the wrath of Ariel Sharon. But the Palestinian leader insists that this will be possible only when the Israelis withdraw from PA territory. The PA roundly condmened the Megiddo attack, and ordered a roundup of Islamic Jihad militants. The Bush administration condemned the attack and said it underscored the urgency of reforming...