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...LANKA Face-to-Face An end to the 18-year civil war moved tantalizingly closer as a date was set for direct negotiations between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels. Officials said face-to-face talks aimed at reaching a political settlement would start in May, with Thailand as a possible venue. More than 64,000 people have died since the rebels began their fight for an independent state...
...fight, he said, would be carried forward by Palestinian children. And even as he made this vow, a teenage girl from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket, taking two Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah, and it's likely that figure will climb in the days ahead - the incursion would...
...monitors in Palestinian Authority jails and offices on a full-time basis and provide both sides with technical surveillance devices to ensure compliance with the cease-fire requirements in the Tenet plan. A cease-fire would give war-weary Israelis and Palestinians some breathing space, but a lasting political settlement isn't in sight...
...their guns. In Gaza a remote-controlled bomb packed with C-4 explosive blew up an Israeli Merkava tank, killing three soldiers. Also last week Israel's Shin Bet security service foiled three separate bombing plots set to coincide with Zinni's arrival. In one incident near the Jewish settlement of Rimonin, Israeli forces blew up a car carrying an alleged suicide bomber on his way to Jerusalem...
...face mountains of debt, even bankruptcy. The Vatican stands aloof at pay-up time; every diocese is responsible for its own financing. That drove the Santa Fe, N.M., diocese to the brink of insolvency, when it had to borrow from parish savings accounts to fill out a $50 million settlement. The diocese of Santa Rosa, Calif., sold off property, closed an elementary school and took out $7 million in loans from 90 other U.S. dioceses to pay $16 million to abuse victims...