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...That would be worrying anywhere, but it has a particular chill in Malaysia, where four tons of ammonium nitrate has gone missing. The fertilizer, which can be used to make truck bombs, was ordered by Yazid Sufaat, a former Malaysian army captain now under detention in Kuala Lumpur for alleged links to the al-Qaeda. (On Abubakar's orders, Malaysian police say, the 37-year-old allowed two of the hijackers on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11 to stay at his apartment in Kuala Lumpur in 2000.) Yazid, who was arrested in December...
Still, all that action won't yield results in time to offset the winter chill. Bills are piling up so fast in Chicago that 3,000 residential customers a week are pleading with Peoples Energy for an assistance or installment plan. Some chemical manufacturers in the South have decided that it's more profitable to shut down temporarily and sell their contracted power back at a higher price than to use it themselves. (Which is exactly what aluminum makers in the Northwest are doing with their valuable electricity, much of which flows to California.) At a time when many fear...
...into a minor online dispute and No. 5 stepped in to patch things up. "Thanks, Mr. Kissinger," I wrote, assuming he would be amused. He was not. "Perhaps you don't know my special loathing for Kissinger," he wrote back in a long, angry missive. The ensuing chill lasted weeks...
...Israel had responded with air raids on Gaza after two Israelis were killed Monday in a bomb attack on a school bus, but that action had only served to weaken Israel's diplomatic position. Egypt recalled its ambassador in protest of the Israeli air raids, signaling a new chill in relations between the country and its longest-standing Arab peace partner. Even the United States criticized the Israeli action as "disproportionate and excessive." And that Wednesday car bombing proved that heavy Israeli retaliation was unlikely to stop terror attacks...
Warren Christopher and James Baker III call a joint press conference asking for both sides to "chill." But their appearance takes a sudden rancorous turn when Baker jests with reporters afterward, "With all due respect, it was Ronald Reagan's election that got our hostages out of Teheran, not some elegantly tailored twerp L.A. lawyer...