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OTTAWA: A dispute between Canada and the U.S. over the Helms-Burton law -- the measure intended to punish foreign firms for doing business with Cuba -- is coming to a head. By late Wednesday, a coalition of 20 church, nonprofit and labor groups had called on Canadians to boycott Florida, a $1.3 billion Canadian tourist destination. Many Canadian companies, which could lose other U.S. revenue if they pressed ahead with Cuban business deals, vow to do so regardless. Although the Toronto government has not endorsed the boycott, it says that it should be taken seriously because it has significant popular support...
...have no leads whatsoever," but American experts assume that the terrorists this time are homegrown Saudis, probably Islamic extremists, as were the four who were beheaded. Some officials suspect the cases are linked, that it is the same group, and that the bombers were fulfilling their threat to punish Americans if the four suspects were executed. Saudi and U.S. officials do not rule out the possibility that another country was involved...
...true, of course, because the old man--who is indeed Brossard, although he has called himself Pouliot for many years--survives. But who, in 1989, still wants to punish him for his past by killing him? Brossard assumes that Jewish money is behind this attempt on his life. That belief, a measure of his reflexive anti-Semitism, will have fatal consequences...
LYON, France: One day after unanimously denouncing terrorism, G-7 leaders lashed out at the U.S. for threatening to punish foreign companies that trade with terrorist nations. It's a question of manners, said French President Jacques Chirac: "I don't think economic retaliation is most effective. Taking an entire population hostage is not elegant." At issue is the newly enacted Helms-Burton law, under which a foreign company could be sued in the U.S. for doing business with Cuba. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports from Lyon that Clinton's hands are tied by election-year politics...
...which the actions of individual students may threaten the security of the community, and at that point it is the responsibility of the police to act. The police have encountered safety problems with students under the unlawful influence of alcohol and other drugs, and although they typically do not punish these students, they are perfectly justified in trying to prevent such situations...