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Beginning this week, their hamlet of Netzer Hazani and the other 20 Jewish settlements that occupy more than one-third of the Gaza Strip will be ghost towns, the Hilburg home of 26 years reduced to rubble, the very purpose of their lives stripped away. Under the controversial policy Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calls disengagement, some 8,700 Israeli residents in Gaza and another 674 in the West Bank must leave their homes or face removal by force. The plan has the support of the international community, including the Bush Administration, which sees the withdrawal as a small but vital...
...like a ghost town," she recalled...
DIED. CATHERINE WOOLLEY, 100, writer of 87 children's books including The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy and the Gus the Ghost series; in Truro, Mass. So prolific that her publisher advised her to take an occasional pseudonym, she often used her grandmother's name, Jane Thayer...
...Iraq said U.S. commanders largely agreed with the report and are following its recommendation to turn over the vetting of recruits to the Iraqis, who have postponed some training to redo background checks. The spokesman also said the Iraqi Interior Ministry has begun using a biometric database to track "ghost employees" who are on the rolls but don't show up for work. A senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, however, tells TIME that he disagrees strongly with one opinion included in the report--that the Pentagon was serving up unprepared Iraqi police as "cannon fodder." --By Timothy J. Burger...
...economy will require extreme measures that are perhaps anathema to a free-market philosophy. Tariffs seem to be the next logical step. Another possibility is launching a propaganda campaign. If every television show had a 30-sec. piece featuring empty U.S. factories and dust blowing through American ghost towns, Chinese goods just might stop flying off the shelves. John A. Tardy Cordova, Tennessee, U.S. Sore Winner? Your item "A Hard-Liner For The People" [June 27] profiled Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the eve of the runoff vote in the Iranian presidential election, which he later won. Of Iranian politics...