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...divided between those who support the road map and those who do not--are, as yet, too weak to control Hamas. Abbas, said Sharon at a Cabinet meeting last week, is like "a chick that hasn't grown its feathers." Addressing the Palestinian Authority's complaints about the Rantisi strike, Sharon, according to Gissin, told his ministers, "If the Palestinians don't like it, we offered them an alternative: to start taking care of business themselves." In the meantime, Sharon is determined to do Abbas' job for him. Someone, in his view, must. Late last week Israeli security sources told...
...Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, a former business associate who headed Iraq's Republican Guard. Al-Tikriti did not tell her why he wanted the house, but Yunis suspected it might be used as a storage site or meeting place. When she returned to her home two days after the strike it was empty, but official papers were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition and six touch-tone phones with labels reading HEALTH MINISTRY and REPUBLICAN GUARD. TIME visited Yunis' home, which sits across from a church in the graceful neighborhood of al-Mansur. On close examination...
...family who worked at their farmhouse in Tikrit told TIME the Iraqi leader phoned the house on April 8 looking for guards to launch surface-to-surface missiles. "I think he's alive," says a U.S. intelligence official in Iraq, "because if he suffered at all in that strike we probably would have heard about...
...Today, sitting in their landmark Kowloon studio?where the walls are covered with two decades of messages from fans?the boys from Beyond are in an affable and unapologetic mood. "It's a technique to be able to strike a balance between rock and commercial music," says Paul Wong, the band's 39-year-old guitarist. "Once you decide to produce albums, undergrounders call you rock traitors, but the public doesn't even know who you are yet. Every day you're struggling between commercialization and your dream, which we had to remember very clearly. [That dream] was to change...
...Official width of the strike zone; the rising number of hit batters is attributed to umpires' calling more strikes on the edges...