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...What a stimulus package will do, though, is make it look like Washington is trying to help. That's why Bush was willing in Orlando Tuesday to signal a GOP retreat on a retroactive (to 1986) repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax. It's why Senate Democrats - though they couldn't actually pass a bill - finally let go of their weeks-long fight to load up the package with antiterrorism spending and farm subsidies. After spending the better part of three months jostling for ideological goodies to present to constituents ahead of the 2002 elections, Congress may be finally...
...pattern of violence now being accelerated. President Bush again insisted that Yasser Arafat "rout out those who killed," but the fragility of the Palestinian leader's grip on power was demonstrated in Gaza City where Hamas gunmen, supported by thousands of demonstrators, forced Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces to retreat from the home of the movement's leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Arafat had ordered placed under house arrest...
...week supply of food. After Sept. 11 all aid was suspended as agencies withdrew; 230 have died in Dehdadi since then. Others have fled into the frozen mountains rather than live in a war zone. Without food or water, many have surely perished. Now, with the Taliban's retreat, the way to better-supplied camps near Pakistan is open--but many of the refugees are too weak and poor to make it. "A lot of them are going to die," says Stephan Goetghebuer of Medecins sans Frontieres. "The children and the old first, then the others...
...Women's rights are human rights," says Senator Hillary Clinton in an essay for TIME.com "They are universal values that we have the right--and the responsibility--to promote every place in the world, and especially in a place like Afghanistan." With the Taliban's retreat giving fresh hope to the country's women, Clinton says the U.S. should make sure that women play a prominent role in a new Afghanistan. "It is not only the right thing to do; it is the smart thing to do." Read the rest at time.com/clinton...
...Miracle Rescue for Afghan Aid Workers Eight aid workers arrested by the Taliban in August on charges of promoting Christianity were freed last week after the city of Ghazni fell to Northern Alliance troops. Taliban forces took the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans with them in the retreat from Kabul. Abandoned in Ghazni, the workers were picked up by Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg Taubmann, one of the German aid workers, said their release was "like a miracle." THE NETHERLANDS More Evidence Prosecutors...