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...general election -- leaving his Fianna Fail party scrambling to find a new leader who commands the support of a parliamentary majority. Reynolds lost the backing of the Labour party over the appointment of a judge accused of delaying the extradition of a priest charged with child molestation in Northern Ireland. If a new prime minister satisfactory to Labour cannot be found, national elections would then be held, delaying the peace that started with September's cease-fire. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams urged a quick solution since any protracted power struggle could "diffuse the momentum that has been built...
Barbeau, the chef of Fullers, a Seattle restaurant, was featured in a PBS cooking special, worked with Julia Child, and has even cooked for the cast and crew of "Northern Exposure...
...abduction stories are fiction, of course. Seared in the memory of America is the kidnapping nightmare that ended in the death of Polly Klaas in Northern California last December. But we also remember the story of Paula Sims, who went public in 1986 about the "disappearance" of her daughter Loralei and, three years later, her daughter Heather, and is now serving a life sentence in connection with their murders. And then there was the case of Diane Downs, the Springfield, Oregon, mother who claimed in May 1983 that a stranger waved down her car on a deserted road and shot...
...after he issued a decree that made theIsrael-Jordan peace treatyofficial, King Hussein flew to the shores of the Sea of Galilee and became the second Arab leader -- after Egypt's President Anwar Sadat -- to visit Israel publicly. Hussein arrived in northern Israel by helicopter, then shook hands with well-wishers and even kissed a baby on the way to three hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The King has secretly slipped into Israel over the years for negotiations during periods when the two countries were privately chummy but officially at war. BTW: Sadat, whose visit...
...miles of gas and oil pipelines, many of them poorly maintained and some in very bad shape. Every year, up to a fifth of Russia's total oil production is lost -- partly to theft, but much of it through leakage. Komineft, the company whose oil is now polluting the northern terrain, is one of the most consistent offenders. For six years, says Stephen MacSerraigh of the oil industry magazine Nefte Compass, "the Komineft pipelines have averaged about 10 leaks a month. If you fly over them, you constantly see puddles of oil on the ground...