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...image of the World Trade Center will also have the vital power to tear us away from any inclination to forget our vulnerability, the hatred for America that exists in so many other parts of the world. Just as pictures of the Berlin Wall remind us of a time when political division and fear brought the world to the nuclear brink, images of the World Trade Center will focus our anger and sadness into action against terrorists. To erase those images would allow America to push last week’s tragedy from its immediate consciousness, thereby diminishing its long...
...seven months of hostilities along with the adoption of political reforms. Rival sides differed on the number of weapons to be collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German Peace Bid An offer by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to hold cease-fire talks in Berlin was welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But proposals for a zone-by-zone truce seemed far from events on the ground, where at least 15 people died in continuing violence. IRAN Jailed for "Insults" A prominent member of the reformist bloc in Iran...
...Palestinian side, Arafat looks panicky, scurrying from Berlin to Beijing in search of diplomatic progress, but politically paralyzed to take the actions against the Islamists and other militants that such progress would require. Unlike Arafat, many of those militants appear to have a clear strategy - the one perfected by Hezbollah in Lebanon, of inflicting a slow but steady stream of casualties on the Israelis through guerrilla warfare and terror strikes in the hope of turning Israeli public opinion against the occupation. And today that strategy, rather than Arafat's diplomacy, tends to hold sway on the Palestinian street...
Israel has responded the only way it can, and precisely as any other country would. When, in 1986, the U.S. found Libya responsible for a terrorist bombing that killed American soldiers in a Berlin discotheque, it did not send Muammar Gaddafi a subpoena. It bombed his barracks...
DIED. EARL ANTHONY, 63, gentlemanly champion bowler and record-setting title winner; after falling down a flight of stairs at a friend's house; in New Berlin, Wis. Anthony won 41 titles on the regular Professional Bowlers Association Tour, setting a record that still stands in a sport that was his second-choice career: his quest to become a major-league pitcher was derailed by an ankle injury in the minors. He failed to win a pro-bowling title until past age 30, but went on to become a six-time Bowler of the Year, the tour scoring leader five...