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...where the roadmap goes into extensive detail on the steps necessary to restore Israeli security, it grows distinctly fuzzy when addressing issues of occupation. The first phase requires that the Palestinians renounce armed struggle, dismantle all organizations wielding arms outside of the formal security services of the PA, and reform Palestinian institutions (code, in U.S. and Israeli parlance, for sidelining Yasser Arafat). The requirements of Israel in the same first phase are limited to easing the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians, withdrawing from towns reoccupied by the Israeli Defense Force and dismantling settlements built in the course of the current...
...Neither side has done much to implement the "roadmap." Instead of dismantling the militant organizations that have waged the terror war, the PA leadership brokered a truce agreement under which they would refrain from attacking Israel in exchange for prisoner releases and other concessions. Yasser Arafat remained very much in charge of the PA despite U.S. efforts to sideline him. And Israel confined itself to mostly token gestures in respect of settlement outposts, reversible military withdrawals from a couple of Palestinian areas and the release of a couple of hundred of the 6,000 Palestinian militants currently in Israeli prisons...
...water roller coaster. Nearby, the Wild West-themed Wilderness Resort added a third indoor water park this year. Among the latest parks are the North Woods--inspired Great Wolf Lodge in suburban Kansas City, Kans. (off I-70 and I-435), and the 1-acre Splash Lagoon in Erie, Pa. (off I-90). Great Wolf has an Aveda spa and camping-themed restaurant. Splash Lagoon's water attractions include the Black Hole tube slide and the Tiki tipping bucket. --By Betsy Rubiner
...discussions, Thursday's assassination of a Hamas leader who had played a key role in negotiating the "hudna" made a Palestinian crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad a non-starter. Abbas's security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, said his proposed set of actions against Hamas would have to be reassessed - PA security forces can't be seen, on the Palestinian street, to be doing Israel's dirty work...
DIED. PETER SAFAR, 79, anesthesiologist known as the father of CPR; of cancer; at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. A native of Vienna who came to the U.S. for a residency at Yale, he developed the lifesaving technique known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a combination of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac compression. He also helped set standards for other aspects of emergency care, including the training of technicians, the assembling of intensive-care units and the prevention of brain damage after cardiac arrest...