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...SENTENCED. ABDUL AZI HAJI CHIMING, MUHAMMAD YALALUDIN MADING and SMAN ESMA EL, alleged members of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) organization; for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...
...operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely furnished suites serve as the temporary digs for Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, both of which suspended their large Libyan oil operations when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. "Nobody really hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., which runs the huge oil fields abandoned by the Americans in 1986. "Oil started here with the Americans. They trained us." Libyans' friendliness to Americans is even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal, from which...
...versatile Broadway song-and-dance man who became a TV fixture as the sardonic, street-smart New York homicide detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC's Law & Order; of prostate cancer; in New York City. The son of a vaudevillian father and a radio-singer mother, Orbach played the narrator El Gallo in the original cast of the sweetly allegorical (and enormously long-running) off-Broadway musical fable The Fantasticks. Although he went on to star in several hits on Broadway (Promises, Promises; 42nd Street; Chicago) and at the box office (Dirty Dancing; Prince of the City), the Tony Award winner...
...believe these bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations. "I'm convinced that ETA and Batasuna are in agreement over the proposal made [by Otegi]," says Alberto Surio, a political commentator at El Diario Vasco, a San Sebastián-based daily. "But it's a process that's going to take longer than we want. The boat is moving, but the boat is very heavy." Batasuna would like to have its political ban lifted in time to participate in regional elections in May. For that...
...getting the eye from Edouard de Rothschild, scion of the banking family. The real acid test will come, however, with Le Monde, which is seeking €50 million in new investment and is in talks with defense and media conglomerate Lagardère, as well as Madrid's daily El País. If it gets the new funds, Le Monde will have to pay for layoff packages for about 90 employees, work down its debt, and most importantly figure out a new direction. Colombani's aides say he wants to return Le Monde expertise." A noble goal - as long...