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BELFAST: Another day, another bomb, another hitch in the Northern Ireland peace talks. No-one has claimed responsibility for Tuesday morning's police-station blast, and no-one was hurt. But that hasn't stopped Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble blaming the IRA, and calling for Sinn Fein to be excluded from the fledgling talks ? just one day after the Republicans arrived. Is this justified? "The IRA denies it, and they're probably telling the truth," says TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand from Belfast. "It looks to be a Republican splinter group. This shows how fragile these talks...
...before. Today's historic announcement ? that the British government would invite Sinn Fein to take part in Northern Ireland peace talks ? was almost entirely a result of another historic event, the Labor Party's recent election victory. Tony Blair's administration was able to take the six-week-old IRA ceasefire on trust, in a way that John Major couldn't have done without it looking like backpedaling...
...battle between the Clinton Administration and the computer industry over encryption export policy has been raging for six years without resolution, a situation that is making it hard to do business on the Net and is clearly starting to fray some nerves. "The future is in electronic commerce," says Ira Magaziner, Clinton's point man on Net issues. All that's holding it up is "this privacy thing...
Several characteristics make seniors today especially vulnerable. They usually have some money from Social Security and employer pensions, IRA or 401(k) savings, and, if they are widows, the proceeds of their late husband's life insurance. (Con artists avidly read obituary pages to spot new widows' names.) But the seniors know that they are likely to live much longer than their predecessors--maybe long enough to use up their nest egg. And many are fiercely determined never to become a burden to their kids. Sadly, that combination makes them easy prey for phony investment schemes...
HIDEKI IRABU Ira-bum, Ira-bust, Ira-bye-bye. The player who was named later goes from hero to zero in just 18 days...