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Person of the Week VIGILANTE He may not have known when or what they will hit, but U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Americans that terrorists were plotting ... something. Then he went on to tackle a different sort of adversary, announcing a tentative settlement of the Microsoft antitrust suit...
...file is pushing for unilateral separation, while Sharon's Likud want no more talk of a Palestinian state. But the discussion is irrelevant, says Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar, because there is no peace plan. Nor will there be. "The gaps between Sharon and Peres concerning the final status settlement are unbridgeable," he quotes a cabinet minister as telling...
...Oraibi, which dates its origins to about 1150, is considered the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the U.S., and when you visit the haunting mesas that surround it, you quickly see why people would gather at this spot. It's got water. Or rather it had water. The ancient wells are drying...
After more than three years of waiting, John de Chastelain, the retired Canadian general charged with removing arms from the path to a settlement in Ulster, was able to report his first significant result to the British and Irish governments: somewhere in the remote Irish countryside, his independent commission saw the Irish Republican Army permanently dispose of some of the guns, ammunition and explosives from its terrifying arsenal...
...move acted as a much-needed stimulant to a stagnating settlement. Hours after De Chastelain?s report, the British government started dismantling military outposts and declared an amnesty for some I.R.A. fighters. The mainly Protestant unionists, who had been gradually paralyzing the two-year-old power-sharing government in Belfast, returned to the legislative seats they had resigned a week earlier to put pressure on the I.R.A...