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...group is frantically trying to put a halt to such renovation plans. At the Cambridge Historical Commission meeting last May, Save the Square members protested the demolition of certain buildings they believed to have historic value...
...contrary, furious feuding between Hunter's office and the Boulder police seems to have brought the investigation to a halt. Frustrated members of the Boulder police department insinuate that Hunter has been sitting on the case because he is pals with lawyers for JonBenet's parents, who remain the chief suspects. A police source goes so far as to contend that "the Ramsey attorneys are making the calls, telling us [presumably through Hunter's office] what we can do and when we can do it." Hunter's many defenders--he is so popular that he has been elected to seven...
NATO takes over Bosnian Serb radio transmitters in an effort to halt attacks on the Dayton peace accords (Reuters...
PARIS: Following a bloody spree that has seen more than 500 people massacred since late August, Algeria's banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is urging the group blamed for the attacks to halt the killings. Government sources say Tuesday's massacre in an Algiers suburb was carried out by an FIS rival called the Armed Islamic Group, which was locked out of elections it had been set to win back...
...Israel-Syria track of the Middle East peace process skidded to a halt in May 1996, when Netanyahu came to power and swore never to meet Syria's chief condition for peace: Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. But after a particularly brutal year for Israeli forces patrolling its self-declared "security zone" in south Lebanon ? where Syria has sufficient influence to damp down anti-Israeli activities ? there may be some room for negotiation...