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IRAN Student Shutdown Reformists in Tehran suffered another setback last week when police and religious hard-liners closed the offices of the country's largest student group. The organization, the Office for Fostering Unity, strongly supported moves by President Mohammed Khatami to ease some of Iran's strict social laws. The police moved in, they claimed, to quell disputes between rival groups of students after right-wingers in the southern city of Shiraz claimed to have won control of the organization's council...
Another troubling aspect of the case is the renewed interest in the U.S. embassy in Rome, which was closed for three days last January after the Tunisian secret service warned that an attack could be imminent. At the time, the shutdown took much of the embassy staff by surprise. The latest threat comes in a much different context, however, and the embassy remained open throughout the week. "We're keeping our spirits up," said one embassy official. Still, additional barricades could be seen around the palatial complex after the arrests had been made...
...Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, fly the day before from New York to Portland, Maine? The answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered...
...plus' formula was in action this morning when Washington's Reagan National Airport reopened--the last major facility in the country to start flying again after the Sept. 11 shutdown. The airport, which is operating at only one fifth its capacity for the time being, is mostly a business-oriented airport, doesn't usually attract the overstuffed-suitcase crowd in any case...
...nation's 670 million annual passengers would be that foolish any longer. On the contrary, the challenge now will be to convince flyers that the skies won't be dangerous. After a two-day shutdown, American air space reopened tentatively last Thursday, under a list of strict new rules that many experts have been demanding for more than a decade: banning curbside check-in or parking, forbidding family and friends to accompany passengers to the gate, having security personnel check all planes before passengers board, conducting random searches of flight crews and equipment, and prohibiting the transport of cargo...