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...delay, along with the timing of the deal, led the SEC to launch an insider trading investigation the following year scrutinizing the deal. The SEC was unable to conclude that Bush was guilty of wrongdoing, though the agency also said that the lack of findings did not exonerate Bush...
...Israeli forces hunted the perpetrators of the Immanuel attack, who escaped after disguising themselves in Israeli uniforms to launch a deadly ambush, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer announced the suspension of measures planned to ease the suffering of the impoverished residents of the reoccupied sections of the West Bank. But maintaining the iron grip may ultimately prove to be self-defeating: Israel had planned to ease the burden of its reoccupation of West Bank towns out of recognition that the rage and despair fueled by its stranglehold over Palestinian daily life fuels sustains, rather than discourages terrorism. An Israeli officer...
...from their gates, then take a light railway to the terminal while their baggage was inspected in a new underground screening and handling system. But they would not go through a security check before entering the off-site terminal. Gunmen could just walk through the doors there and launch gunfire and explosives into helpless crowds. The shooting last week has convinced Hahn that the plan needs to be rethought. "We're certainly going to learn from this," he says. There's still a great deal to be learned. --Reported by Sally Donnelly/Washington, Aharon Klein/Jerusalem, Jeanne McDowell and Sean Scully/Los Angeles...
...pain of downsizing." Roughly a quarter of all churches offer job programs--mostly small, informal groups that meet once or twice a month and limit their religious content to an opening or concluding prayer. Brian Ray of the nonprofit Crossroads Career Network in Atlanta has helped 27 churches launch such programs, and plans to expand to 45 by the end of the year. Says Ray: "There's an opportunity to marry your personal faith and your work." --By David Robinson
...pleased to be viewed in the past tense after 45 years in politics. While conceding that he may well be forced out if resignations continue to deplete his coalition's parliamentary numbers, Ecevit filled his cabinet vacancies. He also tried to quash the independent Dervis' attempt to launch himself into politics by joining up with Cem, saying that Dervis could not both serve the government and oppose it. In the end, Dervis withdrew his resignation under pressure from President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who feared that if the architect of Turkey's multibillion-dollar IMF rescue package were...