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...suddenly gaining respectability. And prices could go higher still if dictator Saddam Hussein suddenly shuts off Iraq's flow of crude, which the victorious West has allowed to flow into Western markets since 1996. Or if the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries makes good on threats to rein in crude-oil supplies in 2001. The Clinton Administration's decision last September to release some 30 million bbl. of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) did little to cool the crude market, and since then Middle East turmoil and strong global demand have kept traders on edge...
...Even as violence looks set to escalate in the coming days, Yasser Arafat is also facing mounting pressure from his own people to rein in Palestinian shooters. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and surrounding Palestinian areas have implored the Palestinian leader to ensure that gunmen stop using their residential neighborhoods for cover from which to fire on the Israelis. Residents of Beit Jalla have made no secret of their unhappiness with the continued shooting from the neighborhood towards the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo, believing that Palestinians are gaining nothing for the heavy price they're being forced...
...Shays-Meehan Act, which would ban foreign and soft money contributions, rein in campaign advertisements posing as issue advocacy and increase the disclosure of political expenditures...
...there may be more immediate reasons for shutting the U.S. out of the police work: With the Islamist opposition groups using the specter of increasing U.S. involvement in Yemen to scare up support, the last thing the government can afford to do is be seen to be giving free rein to U.S. investigators...
...Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat's efforts to restore calm. Even local leaders of his own Fatah organization have called for an escalation of the confrontation with Israel despite Arafat's attempts to rein in the street...