Word: states
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...said of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted a peace process without a conclusion. At this rate, his wish may be fulfilled. Although new premier Ehud Barak expressed optimism Tuesday that the latest Israeli-Palestinian deadlock could be broken before U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright arrives in Jerusalem Thursday, Palestinian representatives were less upbeat about prospects for resolving the dispute over prisoner releases. Last year?s Wye River accord requires Israel to release some 750 Palestinian prisoners, but Israel is refusing to free those who have engaged in political violence. That, say Palestinian representatives, defeats...
...pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe new life into the decrepit international oil cartel, OPEC ?- could spell trouble for American consumers...
...Fugitive is now a witness for the prosecution. Sam Reese Sheppard, son of the Ohio doctor whose trial for the murder of his wife inspired the "Fugitive" TV series and movie, has relented and will not contest the exhumation of his mother's body by state prosecutors. "It is emotionally wearing," Sheppard said Monday, complaining of the 45 years prosecutors have had to investigate this case and of the further delays the exhumation will pose for his $2 million suit for the wrongful imprisonment of his father. But after a 10-year fight to clear his father?s name, Sheppard...
...Wisconsin refuses to follow the new procedures. Officials from the state, whose donor programs are rated among the best, are worried that there will be "a mass exodus" of donated organs out of the state, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. To make matters more heated, a local hero, former Chicago Bears running back WALTER PAYTON, is waiting for a liver at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Potentially, he would be helped by the new rules...
...Jack Kevorkian may be behind bars, serving a 10-to-25-year sentence for murder, but authorities in New Mexico suspect that one of his associates may be carrying on his work in their state. A year ago, Donna Brennan, 54, was found dead in her Rio Rancho, N.M., home. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, but an autopsy revealed she died from a lethal dose of pentobarbital. A neighbor told police that the morning Brennan died, she had been visited by a man named George. The authorities identified him as Georges Reding...