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...involved in such strikes - reacted energetically. The Palestinian police arrested two people in the West Bank; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his forces to find out which group was behind it; and Palestinian security officials confirmed that the bomber, Abdullah Badran, was a member of Abbas?s own Fatah faction of the P.L.O. But Fatah?s Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militia denied involvement, as did Hamas. Suspicion fell on Hizballah, the Lebanese fundamentalist group, but on Saturday Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Palestinian observers say Islamic Jihad - which like Hizballah gets backing from Iran - may have been pressured by the Lebanese group...
...often derided for his passivity, Abbas, 69, has also been willing to mix it up. Born in Safed, a town now part of Israel, he grew up in Damascus after his family fled when the Jewish state was founded in 1948. As a young member of Fatah, Arafat's faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), he made his name as a fund raiser while avoiding involvement in the group's terrorist attacks. He was among the first Fatah leaders to build bridges to Israeli peace campaigners and in 1977 issued a declaration in favor of a two-state solution...
...distant second, Prime Minister Allawi may yet find plenty of room for maneuver. There's no effective party discipline binding legislators once taken the seats in the Assembly guaranteed by their positions on their coalition's election lists filed in December. The only thing restraining an individual or faction elected on the UIA list from crossing the floor to side with Allawi is the prospect of facing the electorate again at some point in the future - assuming, of course, that in Iraq's next election, the candidates won't be campaigning in ski masks. (The identity of the vast majority...
...should have helped restore peace to the city, but instead unleashed mayhem. On Jan. 21, police in the drug-infested Secondigliano neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples arrested Cosimo Di Lauro, a ponytailed 31-year-old suspected of being the new kingpin of a faction of the Camorra, the notorious Naples Mob. Di Lauro was wanted on suspicion of drug trafficking and ordering multiple homicides, including the Jan. 15 broad-daylight slaying of the 47-year-old mother of a member of a rival group. But as news of the bust spread, a crowd of about 400, mostly women, poured...
...some ways, this Republican faction signals a return to the original political allegiances of African Americans. In homage to Abraham Lincoln's ending slavery, most blacks voted Republican until Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt wooed them into his New Deal coalition in 1932. Now the Republicans are injecting different ideas. Kemp, for example, suggests that the government eliminate capital-gains taxes on inner-city entrepreneurs in order to put more funds into urban pockets of impoverishment. Only 5% of blacks are self-employed, vs. 11% of whites...