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...Following the death of 15 Israelis in a brace of Hamas suicide bombings Tuesday, the Israeli cabinet on Thursday branded Arafat an obstacle that Israel would remove ?in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing." The Israeli Defense Force was even mandated to prepare plans for that removal, but no date was set. And Israeli media reported that in light of U.S. opposition to Israel harming or removing Arafat, the cabinet?s decision was simply an in-principle one that would not be implemented right now. For Arafat, however, the latest Israeli threat proved to be an unlikely...
Franken, at the time a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, sent the April letter to numerous Washington officials, including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, cabinet members and others, and features the text in his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right...
Mullah Omar is believed to have spent the summer moving throughout southwestern Afghanistan. According to Taliban spokesman Mohammed Mukhtar Mujahid, Omar has formed a 10-man leadership council and assigned each lieutenant a region to destabilize. This guerrilla war cabinet includes Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a one-legged intelligence chief who in March ordered the execution of a Salvadorean Red Cross worker in Uruzgan province , and several top leaders. A Taliban field commander tells TIME that Taliban cells have been established and charged with specific responsibilities, such as bombings, preventing children from going to school or burning schools down, attacking government...
...favor the euro - Stockholm overwhelmingly supports the yes camp - while people in small towns and rural areas are against. The campaign has even divided the government, with Prime Minister Göran Persson leading the charge in favor of the euro, while five of the 19 ministers in his cabinet are opposed. Even Persson's Social Democratic Party is sharply divided. If the referendum fails, it could send shock waves far beyond Sweden to Britain, where the government is still debating when to put the issue of joining the euro to a vote. The no side has consistently...
...Emphasizing that ASE uses a different reactor than the one at Chernobyl, Jari Anttila, Oivavoima's managing director, says: "There is no serious reason why the general public in Finland should question our technology." The final decision on whether or not the FIN5 project proceeds rests with Vanhanen's cabinet, and he does not want it. "We must do the sensible thing and look to renewable energy as our final solution," says Vanhanen, who took office in June. (The FIN5 project was approved during former Social Democratic Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's term.) Vanhanen's cabinet is slated to meet...