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...forces maintaining a blockade of Iraq were holding a Russian tanker pending tests to establish the origin of the oil on board, prompting a furious reaction from Moscow. The incident came the same day as Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov castigated a decision by European Union member states to suspend Russia from the Council of Europe for its refusal to accept independent investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya...
...Airways has threatened to suspend service if its flight attendants strike, a likely scenario if the two parties cannot reach a labor agreement by 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning...
...order to get around the government's objections, the firms announced Wednesday that they'd reached an agreement to sell Arco's Alaska holdings to Phillips Petroleum for about $6 billion. The court, in turn, was expected to suspend court hearings indefinitely, with the FTC vowing to sit back down with the firms and make a good-faith effort to hammer out a deal. Of course, this is all still cold comfort to drivers on the West Coast who, for a different reason - OPEC production controls - are currently paying nearly $2 per gallon...
...first big problem with this ordeal is that many people are failing to view the malfeasance in context. The NHL has tacitly allowed this sort of behavior since its inception. Players brawl, hook, spear and bleed and fans buy tickets expecting a WWF-like performance. The league does not suspend people for everyday fights and does not even eject players for such behavior. The players and the league have perpetuated this type of on-the-ice conduct...
...report leaves Defense Secretary William Cohen having to decide whether to carry on with the program or suspend it - and face the possibility that the government will be sued by the personnel who have already received their jabs. While it has proved nearly impossible in the past to sue the Pentagon for such cases as Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome, there is the potential for claims against the FDA, which approved the vaccine. While the Pentagon and the FDA maintain that the only side effects are fever, muscle pains and dizziness - all of which are supposed to disappear within...