Word: ramone
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...enough. To left-wingers, those are admirable stands. Yet then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin persuaded Mitzna to withdraw the Lebanon dismissal letter, and people close to him say he quit the West Bank job because he was just tired of criticism from the left and right. Labor rival Haim Ramon says Mitzna is all "bullshit and baloney." Mitzna left the army in 1993 and later that year became mayor of Haifa, one of the few places in Israel where Jewish and Arab citizens mix relatively easily. Mitzna has earned credit for that among Israeli Arabs, more than 80% of whom...
...Eliezer also faces a primary challenge from legislator Haim Ramon and Haifa mayor Amram Mitzna, and he currently trails both men in the polls. Some Israeli analysts speculate that his sudden choice of the path of confrontation with Sharon is motivated in no small part by his desire to see off challengers within his own party. But it remains to be seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts...
CAPTURED. BENJAMIN ARELLANO FELIX, 50, Mexico's biggest druglord; in Puebla, Mexico. He confirmed that his brother and partner, Ramon, 36, was killed in a February shootout. They ruled the Tijuana cartel, the top traffickers in Mexico's $30 billion drug trade...
...Saturday outside a residence in Puebla, about 30 miles from Mexico City, and took him into custody without a shot. Also arrested was a henchman, Manuel Martinez. Inside the house, Hutchinson said, the Mexican authorities found a shrine with burning candles and a snapshot of Benjamin's younger brother Ramon, one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives, whose enthusiasm for torture and mass murder did much to consolidate the family's hold over the lucrative Tijuana smuggling corridor. Arellano-Felix confirmed to the Mexican military officers that Ramon, had died in a shoot-out with authorities in Mazatlan...
...visit his Mexican counterpart on March 20. Laying groundwork for that visit, Hutchinson went to Mexico two weeks ago to meet with Attorney General Macedo and other top officials. There, he says, he reemphasize that the Bush administration placed top priority on the capture of Benjamin and Ramon Arellano Felix, who are indicted for drug trafficking in San Diego and who are believed to be the leading suppliers of cocaine to the U.S. market...