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DIED. TAD SZULC, 74, foreign correspondent extraordinaire for the New York Times; of cancer; in Washington. Szulc broke the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and later wrote a biography of Fidel Castro. Born in Poland, Szulc came to the U.S. in 1947. He spoke six languages and reported from Asia, Latin America and Europe...
...Disunity over the measure was not limited to the left, however. Several leading conservatives - including former Gaullist Premier Edouard Balladur and former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - broke ranks to vote for the bill, while 30 others aided it by abstaining. That conservative support reflected beliefs that French political and economic modernization lies in extending previous transfers of decision-making power to regional authorities. Earlier French devolution programs were productive. But in tailoring decentralization to regional particularities, the Corsica bill challenges constitutional tenets of national indivisibility and equality...
...cool bangalore morning a month ago, Swayambu Viswanathan was discussing work with a colleague when he felt a sudden tightness in his chest and broke into a sweat. Rushed to a clinic, his ECG showed he had suffered a heart attack. Viswanathan, 59, was taken to Wockhardt, a heart specialty hospital, to undergo an angioplasty procedure to clear a clogged artery...
...heiress to the nationalist mantle of her father, Sukarno, who had been Indonesia's first president. Last week, Wahid sought to head off his ouster by offering to transfer most of his authority to Megawati, but the Vice President and her backers appear to have decided to go for broke: She stormed out of the cabinet meeting 15 minutes after Wahid made his offer...
Welcome to the NFL. Just as Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, grappled with the Waco disaster a month after taking the reins, Ashcroft so far has been involved mostly with crisis control. Hanssen was indicted last week after plea negotiations between the feds and his lawyers broke down. The impasse, sources told TIME, was over Ashcroft's insistence on preserving the option to seek the death penalty in the case. That's against the advice of many in the FBI and the intelligence community--among them, the sources say, CIA Director George Tenet, who has personally lobbied Ashcroft several times...