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Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint, remaining hopes of peace with this lethal, 50-ton haul. But it was not for Arafat, whom Sharon consistently calls a terrorist, that the Israeli Prime Minister had his bitterest words. Those he reserved for Iran, which Israel maintains was the supplier...
...wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
Mike didn't notice the second time he was photographed on the job. It happened around the 20th floor in a crowded stairwell of the burning 1 World Trade Center. A Port Authority contractor had grabbed his digital camera on his rush down from the 71st floor and released the shutter just as Mike, a fireman with Engine 28, was climbing to the scene of the blaze...
...enticements: any business that invests $10 million will get five years of tax breaks. Each South Korean will be allowed to spend $1,200 on duty-free purchases from Cheju each year. And perhaps most appealing to business--imports will be tariff free. "It can be an important port for exports to Japan and the U.S.," says Joon Yeob Han, spokesman for the South Korean embassy in Washington--who fondly recalls his honeymoon on Cheju more than 20 years...