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...Israelis to "leave the Zionist entity immediately to preserve their lives." But some Hamas leaders went to ground. Even those who have been accessible in the past don't sleep in their homes and have stopped using their cell phones, which can reveal their whereabouts. But whatever the Israeli crackdown has or has not done to Hamas, it has surely weakened Abbas' position. The central plank of his program to advance the road map--a cease-fire from all the Palestinian terrorist groups--looks less and less likely. While that trend continues, Abbas will be marginalized. "He's active...
...MANUEL, 30, Cuban pop star; in Brownsville, Texas. The singer, who had been performing with his band in Mexico City, made his way to Matamoros and walked across a bridge into Brownsville with several family members. After saying his decision to leave Cuba was prompted by Fidel Castro's crackdown on dissidents, he was granted asylum...
...with Goa's famous full-moon parties?ecstatic, quasi-pagan raves. In Bombay, Indian friends told me matter-of-factly that "[authorities]cleaned all that up." I didn't like the sound of that?even aging hippies need a place to lay their buzzing heads. But although a crackdown on drugs has restrained the nightlife in Goa somewhat, there are still plenty of cheap rooms and heaving clubs, most of them located north of the Mandovi River, for young travelers with statement hair. South Goa keeps its beaches tie-dye-free, catering mainly to the well-heeled...
...improve public services; with his own former ministers calling him a liar, cynicism about rosy claims can only rise. Blair's problem is that nowhere in public services has there been the sharp, widely felt surge in quality of life of the sort that Rudolph Giuliani's crime crackdown brought to New York. In last week's speech, Blair offered a tangled road map out of these difficulties, amounting to slightly greater local control of public services, layered in dire warnings about the Conservatives - not that they yet stand any chance of beating Labour. A major rethink of core strategy...
...Having won U.S. backing for his insistence that a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism remains the top priority, Sharon feels little pressure to commit on issues such as settlements. Abbas has shown scant ability thus far to deliver any reduction in terror. A number of Israeli commentators even speculated on whether the Israeli military's attempt last week to assassinate the Number 2 political leader of Hamas was intended to make life even more difficult for Abbas. Not that the Palestinian prime minister was making much progress. Hamas had broken off talks with Abbas even before the latest Israeli assassination strikes...