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...Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...
...research in the service of defense is not the only science under scrutiny. Over the next year the NSTC plans to review all federally funded projects -- civilian and military -- with an eye to weeding out redundancies and identifying technology that could be put to use by U.S. companies. Presidential science adviser John Gibbons, who heads the NSTC, makes no secret of the fact that some government-sponsored science will have to be axed. "We're going to do new things," he says. "But we can only do those by not doing some things we are doing...
...computerized triage system that can track the diagnosis, status and location of patients in both civilian and battlefield trauma-care units...
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians reopened in the Egyptian town of Taba, but three days later, delegates again halted the talks. "On the civilian issues, we are coming closer. On the security issues, there is a lot to be done," said Major General Amnon Shahak, head of the Israeli delegation...
...dollars a year on golf, and he wants to do something about it. The Democrat from Arizona recently learned that the military maintains about 280 golf courses for its personnel at the cost of some $6 million a year. DeConcini wants to open up the military courses for civilian use for about a dollar a hole, a plan that could net the Treasury $100 million a year...