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Sharon gave Arafat a last chance. The Cabinet said it would watch for Arafat's promised cease-fire to show on the ground. But Israeli patience is thin. After the bombing, Israel closed all crossings from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and barred Arafat from using the Gaza airport. Across the beachfront promenade from the Dolphinarium, Israeli rioters besieged the Hassan Bek mosque even as the Cabinet met. Rioters wearing swimsuits crossed from the beach to the mosque to hurl stones at a few dozen worshipers and to charge police, who brought up water cannon and horses. Even...
...have bolstered Mexican government resolve. Soon afterward, the Mexican army, acting on cia as well as DEA tips, arrested Ramon's buddy Higuera at one of his houses south of Tijuana as he partied drunk and naked with two Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because it had failed to tell...
...ascendance in McAllen is a former Catholic priest turned economic hustler named, coincidentally, Mike Allen. As president of the local economic-development office, the 63-year-old executive uses local tax funds to attract business to McAllen--as well as to its Mexican sister city, Reynosa, across the vein-thin river. "I remember back in '88 meeting the mayor of Reynosa. He had an AK-47 in his back seat. We did a handshake deal to bring manufacturers to Mexico," says Allen. Back then, Reynosa had fewer than 20 factories, with 16,000 employees; today there are 209 plants, with...
...fighter from being stomped on by an opponent. Poking in the eyes is not allowed, nor is biting. Boxers wear no shoes, as is the tradition in Muay Thai (kickboxing). Less traditional in this illegal version: boxing gloves are dispensed with, replaced by hands bound across the palm with thin strips of hemp to make the fights as savage as possible...
...That same weekend, a huge homecoming takes place in Ireland. Twenty years after a young group called U2 backed Thin Lizzy at Slane Castle, Bono and company return to the rural venue to close out the European leg of their Elevation world tour. The daylong Aug. 25 event also includes Coldplay, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and JJ72...