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...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, embroiled in his own power struggle with Hamas, denounced the attack as ill-considered and counter-productive, saying it both "violated the national consensus" and potentially offered Israel "a pretext to launch a widespread military operation." What happens next may depend on the fate of Cpl. Shalit. Numerous countries are lobbying Palestinian leaders to do everything they can to secure his release, with Egyptian representatives apparently playing a key role. Several senior officials of the Hamas government have publicly called for Shalit to be released unharmed. The militants holding the young soldier have said they...
...late Friday afternoon when Long was temporarily out of the office, his dynamic assistant cabled instructions to Admiral William T. Sampson in the Caribbean and Commodore George Dewey in Hong Kong to prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders. So when Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, the U.S. squadrons in both theaters had been heavily reinforced. The results--the destruction of the Spanish fleets in Manila Bay and, two months later, off Santiago, Cuba--were decisive. Spain had been reduced to the rank...
...child-support, she was a typical patient from "the neighborhood". Rosa was pretty saucy though; she let you know she didn't like waiting, she was snappy during her interview, she made sure I wrote her out prescriptions for all the medication I recommended, even the over-the-counter ones. This way they would all be paid-for. She spoke no English, and she even poked fun at my clinic Spanish. I made a note of it in her chart...
...Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Larijiani, told Britain's Guardian newspaper this week that the Iranian counter-offer will address what he said were "ambiguous points" in the Western offer. "These ambiguities persist from the beginning to the end of the package," he told the paper. "The package is more like a statement. If we are going to get agreement, we do not need a sermon...
...Bush Administration. That's because officials in Tehran are not treating the Western offer as the ultimatum that U.S. officials have made it out to be, but merely as the beginning of a drawn-out negotiating process. The Iranian leadership is engaged in intense debate aimed at formulating a counter-offer - one that would satisfy the international community's goal of making sure Iran's nuclear program is confined to civilian uses while at the same time pushing back on some of the specific demands made by the U.S. and its allies...