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...More violence. Violence breeds violence. When the Israelis fire tank bombs at the Palestinians, the Palestinian have to respond. When the Palestinian kill an Israeli citizen, the Israeli army has to react - it's their job to protect their citizens. People are squeezed in a situation where everybody is blaming the other, and there's no space for one side to understand the other. Not to agree - to understand...
...same time, mounting indications of bin Laden's reach are coming to light. In a New York court earlier this month, a U.S. prosecutor suggested that Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian citizen, was a bit player in a larger bin Laden plot. Not only were U.S. sites targeted to be bombed on Jan. 1, 2000, but there was a similar plot in Jordan and a planned attack against the U.S.S. The Sullivans while it was at port in Aden. "It is clear that the general guidance was given by al Qaeda network to pursue these three plots," says a U.S. counterterrorism...
...stockholder and employee of the fabulous company known as AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME, I wanted to see this corporation strike an accord with mighty Microsoft last week. But as a citizen of the global village and all-around guy of the people, I was thrilled when the deal dropped dead. The company stooge in me drooled at the prospect of the two biggest players in Computerville divvying up the market. AOL would get premium distribution and placement in the October release of Windows XP, helping it add gazillions of new users to its rolls. In exchange, Microsoft...
...legal immigrant to this country and a naturalized U.S. citizen, I do not want as fellow citizens those whose first act vis-a-vis the U.S. is to break the law. JONAS M. GRANT Santa Monica, Calif...
SENTENCED. LORI BERENSON, 31, American citizen convicted on charges of colluding with guerrillas to take the Peruvian Congress hostage; to 20 years in prison; in Lima, Peru. The M.I.T. dropout, sentenced to life in prison in 1996, sought and received a new trial. After the verdict, she defiantly told the court, "I consider this an unjust sentence...