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...seemed a straightforward operation. Immigration officials and police, unarmed as usual in Britain, broke into an apartment in a run-down north Manchester suburb last Tuesday, seeking a 23-year-old Algerian who had gone missing after his bid for asylum was rejected. He was to be detained, pending deportation, under anti-terrorism legislation. Instead of one man inside the apartment, however, the police found three, all of them North African. The detectives immediately checked the identities of the other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north...
FRANCE Face-Off A truce broke down in the Ivory Coast as government and rebels met in Paris. Rebel leaders want President Laurent Gbagbo to quit, claiming his 2002 election was unfair and insisting new elections are necessary. But Gbagbo said the constitution does not allow him to call early legislative elections and said the rebels should disarm...
...Director Jack Megan fell off a sled earlier this month and broke several bones on his right side while playing with his children at his home in Concord, Mass., according to Cathleen D. McCormick, director of programs...
...along with the University and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay, Shleifer is also a defendant in a suit brought by the federal government alleging that Shleifer broke conflict of interest regulations while running a government-funded economic advising program in Russia...
...Clinton agreement - the North Koreans agree to refrain from developing nuclear weapons and are offered food and energy aid as part of a process aimed at "full normalization of political and economic relations." The reason South Korea is trying to revive that deal is that it broke down at both ends: The North Koreans sought new ways of producing weapons-grade nuclear fuel via centrifuges, and trashed the spirit of rapprochement by test-firing missiles over Japan; but the U.S. and its allies also failed to deliver on the promised energy assistance. Now, North Korean brinkmanship has put both sides...