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...Arab American, I was deeply saddened by your article "Rough Justice," reporting the humiliation many Middle Easterners and Muslims have experienced following the Sept. 11 events. Are U.S. government interviews of 5,000 men and women in Arab-American and Muslim communities the best way to crack down on terrorism? As if the hatred, threats and discrimination Arabs and Muslims have experienced since Sept. 11 weren't enough, are we now to be humiliated by our own government? Sept. 11 should be no excuse for Ashcroft to use ethnic profiling in the campaign against terrorism. RANIA HAMMOUD Dearborn, Mich...
...Palestinian police and militants that prompted fears of civil war, leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad announced a halt to their suicide-bombing campaigns in Israel. The move is designed to defuse tension within the Palestinian community, which has been split by leader Yasser Arafat's moves to crack down on militant activity. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks reclaimed positions in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Ramallah, just hours after pulling out. The Palestinian Authority said that the action undermined its own attempts to maintain order...
...PRODUCERS Perhaps you've heard of it? Mel Brooks' first crack at a Broadway musical looks like it will run forever. And maybe it deserves to. Of course, the 75-year-old amateur had help from some talented pros, especially director Susan Stroman, who serves up show stopper after show stopper, and Nathan Lane (with Matthew Broderick, left), a Max Bialystock even Zero Mostel would have loved...
...large crack in the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba will open this week as the first commercial shipments of U.S. food in 38 years are due to arrive in Havana. After Hurricane Michelle ravaged Cuba last month, compounding the island's steep drop in tourism revenues after Sept. 11, Castro refused relief aid from Washington, his archenemy. But the communist dictator did agree to pay $30 million in cash for grain, poultry and vegetable oil from U.S. companies like ADM and Cargill--something he had vowed earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last...
...certainly be no letup in diplomatic pressure on Arafat to sustain his offensive against the Islamists - the very fact of his current actions appears to prove the thesis that the Palestinian leader only acts under extreme pressure. But the perception that the PA is taking political risks to crack down on radicals is likely to raise pressure on the Israelis in the coming weeks for a resumption of political dialogue. Peres has reportedly been meeting with PA officials to discuss a plan under which Israel would withdraw from all over Gaza and allow Arafat to declare a state there...