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...angry demonstrations. Under international pressure to curb the killers, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat promised to do all he could to secure an "immediate and unconditional cease-fire." Israel's Cabinet didn't buy it. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared his own cease-fire two weeks ago and watched the toll continue to mount. But as observers waited for Sharon's tactical decision on whether to hit back, Sharon was, in fact, rethinking his strategy. His emergency Cabinet meeting Saturday clearly held the Palestinian leader responsible for all attacks and took a significant step toward designating him and his Palestinian Authority...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Toll collector Robert Fuentes unlocks the grimy padlock and unloops heavy chains at the gate to the bridge--one of five busy spans. The bridge is 13 months old and reveals just how open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms...
...sweltering corrugated-roofed shed on the Thai-Burmese border, 24-year-old Chinaka hits the canvas in the third. It's not the first time this bout the Burmese has gone down, and the beatings have taken their toll: he seems to be swimming in slow motion on the dirty floor. As he inches on his stomach across the ring, the crowd screams at him to get up while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving...
...bloodbath began. At week's end, the group had been attacked by the Philippine military and lost up to 14 fighters, including supreme Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani. They raised the stakes by storming a church and a hospital and taking 200 more captives? reports were sketchy, but the toll after 36 hours of fighting was up to 29 dead, including 13 soldiers and 5 civilians, and an unknown number wounded. Some of the original hostages have escaped...
...house raids-only heightens civilian hostility to the occupiers. The Russian government admits to 3,096 troops dead since October 1999-not far off the 3,800 officially listed as killed during the war of 1994-96. Activists from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers say the real death toll is almost double the official figure. No one counts the civilian dead...