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...Hizballah, which helped drive Israel's forces out of Lebanon two years ago, has boosted its support for the intifadeh. In January Jordanian officials arrested three Hizballah guerrillas for trying to smuggle weapons into the West Bank. Israeli officials say the group was behind a cross-border raid into northern Israel that killed six Israelis last month. On Saturday Hizballah launched a new attack on Israeli soldiers guarding the country's northern border. In an interview with TIME, Hizballah's deputy secretary, General Naim Qassem, said, "It is our duty to be by [the Palestinians'] side and offer them...
...might become impossible to deny passage to Iraqi forces in part because they might bring with them the chemical or even biological weapons that evoke the special enthusiasm of Hamas and other fundamentalists. Finally, there is the Hizballah militia in southern Lebanon, already deployed close to Israel's northern frontier with hundreds of bombardment rockets ready to strike as far away as the port city of Haifa...
...Israelis would have no surefire way of stopping the Hizballah from launching its huge inventory of Iranian-supplied bombardment rockets at the villages and cities of northern Israel. Although grossly inaccurate, they would still inflict damage. Syria also has hundreds of bombardment rockets, some with chemical warheads, but unlike the Hizballah guerrillas, it must fear Israeli retaliation. No Arab air force is likely to be much of a threat to Israeli cities, while if Saddam Hussein chooses to blow his cover by launching the handful of ballistic missiles he has kept hidden all these years, they are unlikely...
Like earlier fables, this modern-day story stars a monster (Robert John Burke). Bored with evolution and disgusted with society, the monster has retreated to an abandoned Navy bunker on the northern coast of Iceland, where he spends his eternity drinking, skulking and occasionally eating a nearby villager. The film opens with a close-up of his ranting face, setting the tone of the whole story—erratic, rambling and poignant in spite of incoherence. Both the monster and the movie speak with the same intensity and the occasional wisdom of a lonely bum in a bus terminal...
...errors in the millionaire's original 1987 trial. RESIGNED. ARCHBISHOP JULIUSZ PAETZ, 67, high-ranking Polish prelate, following an "inconclusive" Vatican investigation into accusations, which Paetz denies, that he molested clerics; in Rome. "Not everyone understood my genuine openness and spontaneity toward people," he said. RETIRING. RONNIE FLANAGAN, 53, Northern Ireland's progressive chief of police who through the late '90s succeeded in changing the force's Protestant-biased image; in Belfast. Flanagan steps down amid controversy over his handling of the 1998 Omagh bombing...