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...motorcycle bomb was one of a series of similar assassination attempts on senior officials, though the first since April. In recent months the government had steadily intensified its crackdown on the militants, arresting thousands and executing 15. Last week's carefully planned assault looked like the radicals' reply to the suppression. Their brazen defiance was evident in the timing -- just before noon on a business day -- and the location -- the middle of the capital, a block from the Interior Ministry and from Tahrir Square, known to millions of tourists as the site of the Egyptian Museum...
...white-collar-crime division, the White House has yet to target such scams to lower the cost of national health. Perhaps it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage to all Americans, including the 37 million ) currently uninsured, by generating savings...
...they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There is too little attention being paid to the health of these children," he says. "Yet they are playing Russian roulette with their lives...
...P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right and its American supporters they were one and the same thing. Thus in 1988, at the height of the Israeli crackdown in occupied Palestine, when Secretary of State George Shultz proposed talking to Said and another Palestinian-American professor, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, to discuss his Middle East peace effort, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vehemently objected. The meeting took place anyway...
...equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic since the late 1980s, but it still continues, and crime rings are now supplanting some of the Korean women with Salvadorans. In Los Angeles the trade is export oriented: White Americans have been lured to Japan on singing, dancing and modeling contracts and then coerced into...