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...tight game and we just knew that we needed to clamp down at the end,” said Winter, who chipped in eight points to go along with a team-high seven boards. “Our ability to pull out the close games has definitely improved. That has a lot to do with our experience, I think...
...Time, 100 U.S. special-ops commandos will deploy to train Philippine soldiers in counterterror and close-quarter battle tactics against the Abu Sayyaf insurgents who have ties to al-Qaeda. The U.S. military advisers won't engage in combat but will set up an "intelligence fusion center" to help clamp down on terrorist activities. "It's one of the areas that have to get cleaned up," says a U.S. intelligence official. So where might al-Qaeda look for a safe spot to reconstitute its executive branch...
...defeat Fatah in many student council elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Still, there was always dialogue between the PA and Hamas, and periodic uneasy, silent agreements between them. In 1996, Hamas unleashed a wave of deadly bombings that killed 60 Israelis in eight days, prompting Arafat to clamp down heavily - some 1,000 Palestinians were arrested and the PA even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi. While Hamas won't abandon terrorist actions against Israel, it has periodically agreed, for example, to refrain from sending suicide bombers...
...Presidential Records Act of 1978 was intended to apply to documents created after Jan. 20, 1981, thus making the Reagan administration’s records the first to fall under this legislation. It has never before been used, but the administration is already beginning to clamp down on the information it may provide. We worry that Bush’s executive order may be designed more to prevent the release of information that could embarrass officials with connections to the administrations of Reagan and Bush Sr. than to prevent a breach of national security...
...MARK THOMPSON covers the military for TIME. In his 20 years on the beat, he says, "I've never seen the U.S. military clamp down so tightly on information." Talk to our Pulitzer prizewinning Pentagon correspondent on Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.T. on AOL, Keyword: Live...