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Though the arrests dealt a blow to Fatah's organization in the occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...
...still costing West Germans dearly. The number of road accidents is appallingly high and is expected to top 2 million for the first time this year. Says Otto Schily, a member of the environmentalist Green Party: "It's not only our compassion and mourning over the thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands injured that make a speed limit imperative. It's simple economic sense too." Unlike some of its hell-driving citizenry, though, the Bonn government refuses to put its foot down -- on imposing a speed limit, that...
...ready." The father remembers, "Reza was calm, but dead serious. Like his mother, he's all heart." Reza says, "I was afraid. But they offered me something I had prayed for all my life...
...BRING SHARON HOME. Thompson's supporters argue that as an adult, even a severely handicapped one, Sharon should be free to control her own destiny. "We are asked to let you rest in peace, Sharon," declared Disabled Rights Activist Jaime Becker at the Minneapolis rally, "but you are not dead. You are alive! And next year you will be free...
Last week Greenspan proved those critics dead wrong. In an effort to keep inflation at bay, the Fed raised its discount rate from 6% to 6.5%. That bellwether interest rate, which the central bank charges on loans to financial institutions, now stands at its highest level in two years. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs International investment house: "The increase, announced just a week before the Republican Convention, puts to rest any doubt about Greenspan's independence...