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...said of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted a peace process without a conclusion. At this rate, his wish may be fulfilled. Although new premier Ehud Barak expressed optimism Tuesday that the latest Israeli-Palestinian deadlock could be broken before U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright arrives in Jerusalem Thursday, Palestinian representatives were less upbeat about prospects for resolving the dispute over prisoner releases. Last year?s Wye River accord requires Israel to release some 750 Palestinian prisoners, but Israel is refusing to free those who have engaged in political violence. That, say Palestinian representatives, defeats...
...Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975 ? with a nod and a wink from Washington, which saw Jakarta as a key anticommunist ally in the region ? and killed as much as one third of its population in 24 years of trying to subdue East Timor. International pressure forced Jakarta to agree to the independence referendum, but the government fears that losing East Timor would simply spur secessionist movements inside Indonesia ? which, after all, is an archipelago of diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic identities united only by the fact that they were once all colonized by the Dutch. With anti...
DIED. SIR HUGH CASSON, 89, British architect and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts; in London. In 1951 Casson oversaw the construction of London's first major postwar buildings. He later designed rooms at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace...
...Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more than 30 boxes of documents from the Georgia Amateur Athletics Foundation, investigators say there were many gifts worth more than $1,000, including offers of scholarships to IOC family members. In fact...
...Wisconsin refuses to follow the new procedures. Officials from the state, whose donor programs are rated among the best, are worried that there will be "a mass exodus" of donated organs out of the state, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. To make matters more heated, a local hero, former Chicago Bears running back WALTER PAYTON, is waiting for a liver at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Potentially, he would be helped by the new rules...