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...value of the controlled peso, which is used for the purchase of imports, by 20% in an effort to improve the country's trade balance. The new rate: 279 to the dollar. President Miguel de la Madrid and his Cabinet accepted 10% salary cuts, and a host of lower-level officials lost their jobs...
...release of some of the 9,000 prisoners doing time in Israeli jails - even those like Mardawi, whom Israel classifies as having "blood on their hands," meaning those who killed Israelis or took part in operations that ended in Israeli deaths. So far, Israel has freed only lower-level prisoners convicted of things like membership of a militant group or weapons possession. But Abbas, who formed a new government late last month, needs to keep the prisoners and their supporters in militant groups on his side if the current relative calm is ever to become a more permanent peace...
...Then there is security. There are more cops on the street, more metal detectors in use, more plainclothes, sunglass-wearing men ambling around, and even those surveillance blimps overhead. The staff check accreditations more seriously than at past Summer Games. This will keep the lower-level terrorist attacks from happening, but security experts know dedicated groups like al-Qaeda can strike at any time...
...mosque quickly became apparent as the showdown at Najaf provoked something close to a national crisis. Even though the operation had been ordered by Allawi's government, its deputy president Ibrahim Jaafari called for a halt to the offensive, and there were scores of resignations of lower-level regional government officials in protest of the clashes in Najaf. The government rushed to assure Iraqis that American forces would not enter the Imam Ali Mosque, and any fighting there would be done by Iraqi security forces. The problem was, U.S. commanders had reportedly concluded that the Iraqi forces in the city...
That "gracious initiative" assures militants that they will be given due process and--provided the families of their victims consent--spared execution in exchange for their surrender and cooperation. The deal was devised to reel in lower-level militants in hopes of isolating their hard-core leaders. It was also a canny political move. It enables King Fahd to point to the grace period he offered Saudi militants before his security forces begin a promised crackdown...