Word: border
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ARRESTED. TWO NEW SUSPECTS being questioned in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; for attempting to cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan without proper papers. Pakistani officials say they are interrogating the two, a Saudi and a Sudanese, over possible links to Osama bin Laden, the millionaire Islamic fundamentalist waging a holy war against the U.S. who is thought by many to be behind the bombings...
...hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio. He passed it on to Arafat, but the booby trap failed to go off because of a "technical fault," according to Ha'aretz...
Laurent Kabila has returned to his capital now that Angolan and Zimbabwean forces have slowed the advance of rebel forces. Kabila may find, however, that the Angolans will eventually switch sides. "Angola's only motivation is to protect its border from incursions by UNITA rebels," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "That's why they helped bring Kabila to power, and why they intervened when the rebels arrived, unannounced, in their backyard. But there's no reason why Angola can't reach an agreement with the rebels and their backers, Rwanda and Uganda...
...heart of Serb nationalism. The inhabitants pride themselves on being as inhospitable to interlopers as the rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place to be: of the 12 indicted war criminals detained by NATO troops, only...
...where Jewish, Christian and Islamic names and histories overlap with tens of half-for-gotten pasts. It is still a country where archaeological digs routinely turn up artifacts from the earliest fortified cities and people my age wear peagreen uniforms, berets and guns--whether defending Israel on the Lebanese border or guarding their purchases at the supermarket checkout...