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...delegates' relief may be premature: Sadr's spokesman made clear that he was going nowhere until U.S. and Iraqi government forces pulled back from around the shrine and a cease-fire was in force. And while the latest truce announcement looks set to forestall, once again, a direct assault on his militia forces, it's far from clear that the promised disengagement will occur along the lines announced in Baghdad on Wednesday...
...planned to renew the offensive against Sadr's men in the Imam Ali Mosque after cease-fire talks broke down last Saturday, the government in Baghdad had once again jammed on the brakes. That was because it had become clear to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that a frontal assault would wreck the national conference designed to produce an interim legislature and imperil his prospects for achieving popular legitimacy. The Najaf issue eclipsed the conference's agenda and dominated discussions on Saturday and Sunday after hundreds of Shiite delegates angrily denounced the planned action in the holy city. Although Allawi rejected...
...world's oil could loom large if it were disrupted even temporarily, which would surely push prices higher. Nor does the Kremlin appear to have any qualms about roiling the world's oil markets as the battle with Yukos drags on. "The people who are masterminding the assault on Yukos simply do not take such economic factors into account," says Alexei Kondaurov, a former top Yukos executive. A Moscow court last Friday overruled the Kremlin's seizure of Yukos' core production unit. The government's strategy is to "play a cat-and-mouse game with the company" to drive down...
When the transcript of a June 22 closed hearing in the sexual-assault case of Kobe Bryant was inadvertently released, the press had the expected field day. In the document, defense expert Dr. Elizabeth Johnson presented evidence that suggested Bryant's accuser may have had sex with another man not long after her encounter with Bryant--raising doubts about whether it was Bryant who caused the former college student's vaginal trauma and lending credence to his assertion that the sex was consensual. Speculation flew that the prosecution's case was collapsing and that the charges would be dropped...
DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a troubled personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault and a 10year addiction to cocaine; of natural causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by drugs. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...