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...that it would seize parts of Palestinian Authority territory and hold them as long as attacks continue. Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were...
...crane operator lifts a 30-ft. concrete partition and slots it into a long row of identical slabs. Like the other Israelis laboring along this two-mile strip of wall, he wears not only a hard hat but a bulletproof vest as well. Fewer than 100 yds. away are the outskirts of Qalqilya, a Palestinian town. For the militants among Qalqilya's 25,000 people, the workers must seem an attractive target for sniping. So too will the thousands of Israelis who will pass by on this stretch of the Trans-Israel Highway, which, when it opens...
...curtain will serve their purposes. "With this fence, we'll be able to stop 100% of terrorist infiltrations," asserts Brigadier General Israel Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially, won't completely fence off the West Bank...
...STARTED Yu-Gi-Oh! began life as a Japanese comic strip...
...eating bugs and all manner of mystical creatures in a complex, secret world that youngsters (mostly boys ages 9 and up) can't get enough of and--lucky for the kids--most parents can't be bothered to understand. Yu-Gi-Oh! began in 1996 as a comic strip in Japan (over $2 billion in Yu-Gi-Oh!-related products have sold there). In the U.S., it rolled out last fall as a Saturday-morning 'toon on Kids' WB!, where it soon ranked No. 1 in its time slot. In March the multimedia merchandising was launched: out came video games...