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...being second-guessed by Israeli settlers. With Israel's deadline for an end to the violence due to expire Friday amid the noontime Muslim prayers that have often touched off fresh waves of rage, the tenuous cease-fire reached at Sharm el-Sheik is under new strain following a firefight that raged into the night near Nablus Thursday. The incident, in which one Palestinian and one Israeli were killed and a number of people were wounded on both sides, appears to have begun as an armed confrontation between Israeli settlers and Palestinian civilians, but quickly drew in Palestinian police...
...army earlier this year bulldozed a shrine to the killer. The presence of the settlers also gives Palestinian militants an easy target for their own efforts to rekindle violence. Those on either side who may be looking to provoke confrontation don't have to look very far for a firefight. And firefights inevitably draw in both sides' security forces...
Fighting continued into the night as combat helicopters attacked the main compound of the Palestinian security forces in Nablus. Police officers fled into the street before the shooting began. A firefight erupted in the West Bank town of Hebron, and gunships attacked soldiers in the town of Salfit near Nablus...
...diet of rice and rainwater and growing anxiety of dying in a shoot-out. Although the government has appointed a former commander of a rival rebel group to negotiate with the abductors, it is holding to a tough security line, and engaged a group of rebels in a firefight Monday at the periphery of the camp where the hostages are being held...
...parents say that 10 years ago the FBI told them it was no longer pursuing Soliah. But California still wanted her. The recent dip in crime allowed the L.A.P.D.. to reassign officers to unsolved cases, and Lieut. Tom King, 50, whose father Mervin had led the firefight against the S.L.A., took a fresh look at Soliah's and Kilgore's. His men got a federal jury to indict her for "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution." That warrant brought the FBI back in. Last month the bureau posted a $20,000 reward and asked the syndicated TV show America...