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Grief cycled through their neighborhood on the south shore of Staten Island, an enclave of starter homes colonized several decades ago by fire fighters and policemen. Mike and his three siblings grew up there, and he never left. In the days and weeks after, when E.J. steeled herself by going to Mass, priests reversed bans on cell phones in church, just in case there was any good news. Mike's two young nephews, Christopher, 12, and Brandon, 7, attend St. Clare's School, a nearby Catholic day school connected to a church that has been burying firemen for months...
...immediately delivered on his vow, sending his troops, backed by tanks, into West Bank towns to arrest 50 suspected militants. For good measure, Israeli fighter planes and helicopter gunships blasted buildings belonging to Arafat's various security forces. In a gunfight near Nablus, Israeli troops killed six Palestinian policemen...
...acting more aggressively. They argued that the strictures Israel continues to place on Palestinians, preventing free movement between Palestinian cities and access to jobs in Israel, create a climate in which it is politically dicey for Arafat to do Israel's bidding. Last week Palestinians spat on Arafat's policemen when they came to arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists. In Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, police put Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and then had to deal with two days of riots. One young Hamas supporter died from a wound sustained in a clash with Palestinian...
...police box rarely glance at the obviously underage, mostly female children streaming past long after midnight. "I don't have any reason to come into contact with them," says an officer, who declines to give his name. Michiko says when she's in a strange city she often asks policemen for directions to the nearest hot-sheet hotel. None ever asks where she's from or what...
...month-old crisis that began when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several villages and warned security forces not to enter. The group claimed responsibility for the killing of three policemen earlier in the week. ALGERIA Disastrous Toll Security forces moved in to protect government buildings in Algiers as furious protesters blamed authorities for the high death toll in the country?s worst flood for 40 years. More than 850 people were feared killed, and the Red Cross launched an appeal...