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European states also oppose the law and threaten to retaliate in kind. While no one disputes the need to fight terrorism, this latest piece of lex Americana, a sample of Washington's father-knows-best attitude, outrages allies who do dispute U.S. methods. Just last March, Clinton approved a similar bill threatening foreign companies active in Cuba. What this is really about, argues French Foreign Ministry spokesman Yves Doutriaux, "is one nation telling the rest on earth what they can and can't do. Is that right?" The European Union, Canada and Mexico definitely do not think so, and their...
...Mars reminds everyone of cartoons and fantasies that the Red Planet has always stimulated; among other things, it has brought radio talk shows alive with the voices of vindicated UFO spotters, the Mars rock being their Rosetta stone, the key that unlocks the mystery. But does the rock threaten the centuries-long assumptions and designs of theology...
...school was she? What were her hobbies? I told him to leave me alone. My grief was the grief of Greek tragedy, his response the verbal junk food of psychobabble. My husband, sunk in his own grief, told the "expert" to leave. He refused. My husband had to threaten to grab him by the neck and throw...
...years. He continues to campaign for peace with the Palestinians through speeches and writings. Author of a forthcoming book on post-cold war diplomacy, he's currently in New York City preparing a PBS film on the Middle East peace process. Will new hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threaten its path? "The peace process is in abeyance until he gives some clarification," says Eban. "If it is not going to be followed through, it's a cosmic event in the history of the Middle East...
Just weeks after filing for divorce from her husband and manager Jack Gordon, LATOYA JACKSON has fled to an L.A. safe house--"far away from Jack"--where she is describing their marriage as short on love and long on intimidation. "He would beat me, threaten me, put a knife to my neck," says Jackson. "I was afraid if I left him he would kill me." Jackson wed the ex-con in 1989 and plunged into a string of profitable but cheapening enterprises, including launching a psychic hotline and posing for Playboy. "He controlled all my bank accounts," Jackson says...