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They prefer softer names, like Islamists or fundamentalists, but these were trained killers. They loaded their bomb on a motorcycle and slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...militants, arresting thousands and executing 15. Last week's carefully planned assault looked like the radicals' reply to the suppression. Their brazen defiance was evident in the timing -- just before noon on a business day -- and the location -- the middle of the capital, a block from the Interior Ministry and from Tahrir Square, known to millions of tourists as the site of the Egyptian Museum...
...trial in absentia, charged with murder and membership in an illegal group responsible for the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Rashed, noted police, had been trained in the use of explosives when he fought with the fundamentalist mujahedin against the communist regime in Afghanistan. According to an Interior Ministry statement, the second assailant killed in the attack was a high school student, Mahmoud Hafez Zaki. The other two victims were a parking attendant and a Palestinian accountant who happened to be strolling...
...Interior Secretary/delegate to Organization of American States; points for popularity...
...Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced that the Administration would raise the fees for ranchers who graze livestock on federal land. Last February Clinton undercut Babbitt by trading away a similar increase to gain the support of several Western Senators for his budget. The fees will now rise from $1.86 to $4.28 per head of cattle, still below the $5 to $15 charged on private land. Fee hikes may also loom on other federal lands...