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...casualties have been relatively small fry: six party functionaries were suspended for practicing "money politics" during recent party elections. But a clear indication of Mahathir's resolve will come when the party's Supreme Council decides whether or not to take disciplinary action against UMNO secretary-general Khalil Yaacob. Although accusations of corruption against Khalil were brought by a lowly state assemblyman, they have received extensive coverage in the tightly controlled press, potentially a bad sign for Khalil...
...worst single attack since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out last September, a Palestinian bus driver ploughed into a bus stop at high speed, killing eight and injuring 20. Seven of the dead were Israeli soldiers. Police pursued driver Khalil Abu Olbeh, who tried to flee to Gaza, for 35 km before opening fire, causing the bus to crash. Abu Olbeh, who had worked for the Egged bus company for five years ferrying Palestinian workers between Israel and Gaza, was given clearance to return to his job in Israel just two weeks ago. His family said he has no ties...
...reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village of Kafr Khalil to shoot at the side of the main road into Nablus. The tank's return fire was a direct hit. Adil straightens up and leans against the remains of the doorway. "We are fighting them with stones and old guns. They are fighting with planes, tanks and missiles," he says...
...Khalil Shanti...
...Elian Gonzalez case was brewing, a similar episode was unfolding in Miami with a much different outcome. Maria Eugenia Pereira, a Puerto Rican woman who had been living in Jordan with her husband, left him last July and moved to Miami with their two-year-old son Khalil. The father, Ibrahim Shanti, divorced her in Jordan, flew to Miami and won two favorable rulings in Florida courts, giving him temporary custody of the child. The father and son returned to Jordan April 1. Islamic countries, most of which are not signatories to the Hague Convention, tend to rule for fathers...