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DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...
...left tens of thousands homeless. It also stirred up old resentments in the Berber-speaking region against the central government in Rabat. Protests spread as survivors complained of the government's slow response to the disaster. "We are hungry and there is nothing to eat!" hundreds chanted in the Mediterranean coastal city of Al Hoceima. Bitter over government repression and local corruption, people looted relief supplies. "I went to the town hall asking for blankets, but some people had stolen them and were selling them instead," said Al Hoceima resident Turiya Faylali. Government spokesman Nabil Benabdallah denied reports that authorities...
...reports of Kozlowski's trial, Breen says he's staying focused on the "blocking and tackling" of just running a company. And with the numbers starting to turn in his favor, he is even hoping to take his first vacation since joining Tyco. It won't be to a Mediterranean island for an over-the-top toga party a la Kozlowski (the bad). Instead, Breen (the good) is thinking of taking a few days at home in New Hope, Pa., when his children come home for spring break. Tyco shareholders might be thankful for such a plain...
...volcanic stone from nearby Mount Etna. It is the fresh-produce market on the Piazza Carlo Alberto that is this town's real pride and joy, however. Sprawling over 70,000 square meters, the market is so colorful and bustling that it will become your ideal of what a Mediterranean seaside marketplace should be. In the shadow of churches and historic architecture, stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives, vast wheels of cheese, baskets of fresh herbs, plump vine tomatoes and eggplants the size of soccer balls. Even if you buy?and consume?nothing, you'll find...
...whether to move U.S. military bases out of Western Europe now that the cold war is over and shift forces east to Poland and Romania to be closer to the hot spots of the Middle East. He has asked the Navy whether its constant presence in, for example, the Mediterranean makes it harder to steam quickly to conflicts elsewhere. He wants the Air Force to think less about pilots in expensive jets and more about inexpensive unmanned drones carrying smart munitions. In a legislative tour de force in November, he pushed through Congress an overhaul of the Pentagon's civil...