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...them down, there'll be no deputies left to replace them. In the small hours of the morning, Tibon's jeep pulls up at Joseph's Tomb. Palestinians say it's the tomb of an old sheik, but it was a Jewish seminary until rioters from surrounding Nablus neighborhoods overran it early in the intifadeh. "This is a piece of history," whispers Tibon. "The riot here was a turning point in the intifadeh" because the Israeli army hesitated to rescue one of its soldiers as he bled to death and then had to retreat in the face of a Palestinian...
...member Mohammed Hurrani, though part of Arafat's Fatah movement, called the resignation "a great victory." NEPAL Maoist Mayhem Nepal's guerrilla war intensified as Maoist rebels killed 58 policemen and soldiers in the town of Sandikharka, 295 km west of the capital Katmandu. More than 4,000 rebels overran the remote town, where 200 soldiers were garrisoned. Less than 24 hours earlier Maoists killed 49 policemen in Bhiman in southeast Nepal. CHINA Dalai Envoys Representatives of the Dalai Lama visited Beijing in the first formal exchange in nine years between China and the exiled Tibetan leader. The delegation included...
...intervened. After Spanish midfielder Joaquin muffed his side's fourth penalty, Korean captain Hong Myung Bo drove the ball into the top of the net, clinching victory. "I am not sure what is real and what is a dream," said Jo, as more than 1 million red-shirted fans overran the streets of Seoul in glee. "It's like the whole world has turned upside down...
...Himalayan hills. Their rockets cut through the walls of government offices and police stations, while mortars whistled overhead. After forcing residents into the open, the guerrillas blew buildings apart. They ransacked the bank, making off with $263,000, and freed 16 comrades from the Mangalsen jail while more troops overran Sanfebagar airport 20 km away, one of the few operable runways in Nepal's far west...
...Hassan Awaale. "We have enough problems of our own without more [from them]." U.N. officials, Western diplomats and aid workers agree that al-Itihaad training camps of the '90s don't exist anymore and that the group was destroyed as a military force after Ethiopian forces entered Somalia and overran the group...