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During an official Israeli inquiry, the regional commander in charge of West Bank forces said Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein's killing spree in the Tomb of the Patriarchs could have been prevented. Five of the six men who were supposed to be on guard inside the mosque -- including three who overslept -- were missing.A police superintendent testified that Israeli security forces were forbidden to fire on Jewish settlers, even if the settlers were shooting Palestinians. In that case, he said, "you take cover and wait for the clip to finish, then stop him in some other way, not by shooting...
...story of Aldrich H. Ames' $2.7 million, 7 year spying spree comes to light in dribs and drabs, James "Jesus" Angleton must be doing cartwheels in his grave. Angleton, only posthumously biographized, but long lengendary in the spook community, was the CIA's both hopelessly paranoid and devastatingly effective spy-catcher. He was a man who for thirty years drove himself (and others) crazy trying to stop spy scandals before they got started...
Because much of that increase reflects the daily shooting spree in the nation's inner cities, the fear of crime also cuts across class and racial lines. Republican whip Newt Gingrich may find a receptive audience when he talks about wanting to build stockades on military bases to house prisoners, but so does Jesse Jackson when he urges African Americans to examine the cost $ of black-on-black violence. One day after a group of teenage boys sprayed bullets down the halls of Dunbar High School, in a mostly black neighborhood of Washington, visiting Vice President Al Gore was confronted...
...acumen had labored to produce such a tentative bid. Diller thought so little of Redstone's counter that he vowed QVC would simply stand pat, which was tantamount to a claim of victory. Nor was it clear why Huizenga, whose extraordinarily successful Blockbuster has been on a prodigious buying spree of its own for the past year, would cede control of his own company. Huizenga, a clever and willful entrepreneur who had built the company into not only the largest retailer of home videos and Hollywood's largest single customer but also the majority owner of Spelling Entertainment, Republic Pictures...
...Name of the Father. Daniel Day Lewis stars as Gerry Conlon, the Belfast man who, while on a London spree in 1975, was unjustly arrested, convicted and jailed as an I.R.A. terrorist. The British police in charge of the case were no Miss Marples; they tortured the four major suspects to extract bogus confessions. In director Jim Sheridan's tense retelling of this shameful chapter in British jurisimprudence, the lads are smacked, threatened and humiliated. And Gerry's saintly father (Pete Postlethwaite), jailed with him, is allowed to die slowly, with little medical attention. By the end of the movie...