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...Washington has found a way to keep communicating with the P.L.O. despite President Bush's decision to break off talks in reaction to the unsuccessful Palestinian raid on Israel's coast. Secretary of State James Baker, who has given Europeans the impression that he opposed the cutoff, has privately asked the British to act as a link between the U.S. and the P.L.O. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has agreed to Baker's request, and will soon visit the Middle East, where he is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat. The P.L.O. leader has accepted the Baker approach...
QUICK, THE RAID. Everyone knows that the computer industry is fighting against viruses, malicious programs that can infect whole networks and crash them. So it stands to perverse reason that hush-hush agencies like the CIA and NSA are trying to create such bugs as offensive weapons. The latest entrant in this quest is the U.S. Army, which is soliciting bids on a half-million dollar contract to develop tactical virus weapons capable of disabling enemy computers on the battlefield. The proposal has raised eyebrows among the military's hackers. Says one Army computer-security officer: "Many of my colleagues...
...will be a stepped-up effort to persuade the Bush Administration to break off its 18-month-old dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israelis insist that an abortive Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's beaches two weeks ago demonstrated that the P.L.O. has not given up terrorism. The raid was staged by a P.L.O. faction called the Palestine Liberation Front, but so far P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has refused U.S. pleas to condemn the operation and to sever ties with Muhammad Abbas, the group's chieftain and ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...
June 4: People's Liberation Army troops storm the center of the capital in a pre-dawn raid. protesters are dispersed by machine-gun fire and tanks. Hundreds of students are killed and many more wounded...
...statute in the U.S. The sweeping measure requires an investor who holds 20% or more of a company's shares for less than two years to forfeit any profit on shares sold within 18 months of a failed takeover bid. The law would discourage takeover artists from launching a raid to drive up the price of a target company's stock and then selling out at a profit...