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...even a matter of days pass and there's no real convincing move from Arafat to arrest the Hamas people, then there could be some attacks from Israel. But there are other things Sharon has to weigh - yes, the settlers want him to smack the Palestinians, but there's also a recognition of two things. Israel has gotten a lot of international credit, as it were, for laying off for a couple of weeks following the F-16 air raids that caused an outcry internationally and even within Israel. He may be reluctant to give up that diplomatic advantage...
...After T.J. Solomon of Conyers, Ga., shot and wounded six classmates with a sawed-off shotgun in 1999, his mother demanded to know why he hadn't blasted himself. "You were going to kill yourself, I understand. How did that not happen?" she asked him just after his arrest. "I don't understand how you took innocent children, but you were too afraid to do anything to you. That really has me puzzled. You didn't think twice about doing it to them...
...part, Solomon is in for 40 years. He's likely to be haunted by nightmares for much of that duration. "I've been having dreams and many flashbacks, and most recently, I have been hearing screams," he wrote after his arrest. "I know that it's just in my mind, [but] it's like I'm really hearing them, as if someone were screaming in my face. Usually when it's time to go to sleep and everything is quiet is when my thoughts get worst, because it's all I can hear." Of a dream, he said...
...There has certainly been no letup thus far in attacks by Palestinian militants, nor is there likely to be until both sides have embraced the Mitchell proposals in their entirity. These require the Palestinian Authority to stop Palestinian militants from firing on Israelis, and to arrest known terrorists. But in the current climate, Arafat won't risk the heavy political price he'd have to pay on the Palestinian street for going after the radicals unless there was a tangible political incentive for doing so. And Sharon's position on the settlement question is likely to make more impact...
INDICTED. STEPHEN ROACH, 27, white Cincinnati police officer who last month shot and killed Timothy Thomas, 19, an unarmed black man who fled as cops tried to arrest him, sparking riots; on charges of negligent homicide and obstructing official business; in Cincinnati. Thomas' mother has filed a wrongful-death suit against the officer and the city...