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...goodbye to the peace process for 10 years." Before storming into Arafat's compound, the Israelis blared over a loudspeaker to those inside, "Lay down your arms and come out." Israeli officials told TIME that the Egoz Battalion, a highly trained unit of commandos, led the room-to-room raid through Arafat's compound. Within 24 hours, the Israelis had arrested 150 Palestinians--including fugitives on their wanted list--wounded 40 Arafat bodyguards and killed five others. Only a handful of senior aides and bodyguards remained with Arafat: seven hours prior to the Israeli invasion, Arafat had sent most...
...Boston the diocese admits the remnants of its insurance won't equal the settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping...
...government seems determined to keep it that way. But Jimmy Lai, whose publications are as sensational as they are crusading, won't be easily silenced. "The raid didn't make me either angry or annoyed," he told Time. "I just thought about how to get our magazine onto the newsstands." Using a second printing house kept secret from the authorities, Lai put out an updated edition the next day, with added coverage of the police raid. When it comes to media repression, it looks like Taiwan could learn a trick or two from the mainland...
...building and the English accent of one burglar fueled suspicions that the team worked for a shadowy British army unit that is already accused of breaking the law as part of its counterterrorism operations. Another theory suggests that former police intelligence officers could have carried out the daring raid...
John Reid, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, flew back from America after the raid to declare a breach of national security. Such a high state of alert is justified, he says, because of the important nature of intelligence work. Reid told Time that in the past year at least three "potentially disastrous terrorist attacks have been thwarted" by Special Branch and other agencies. Critics say there may be other reasons. Intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland have always bent the law, but there are persistent suggestions that they routinely broke it - even to the point of murder...