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...where Norzich and Avrahami were attacked, the parking lot of a nearby police station, the antenna of the broadcasting center in Ramallah that had been spouting anti-Israeli invective, a police building in the Gaza Strip used by Arafat's Tanzim paramilitary (which has orchestrated much of the recent unrest) and a Gaza port where the 12 boats of the Palestinian navy were docked. The last was an odd choice, except for the fact that it was just 100 yds. from Arafat's office. Later, the Israelis attacked the police academy in Jericho, after Palestinians torched an ancient synagogue there...
...women aboard the U.S.S. Cole had been at sea for two uneventful months when their vessel arrived in the Yemen harbor of Aden last Thursday. Unrest in the region and the Cole's upcoming six-month mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck...
...Further unrest developed deep in Palestinian territory at the site of the Israeli-controlled Joseph's Tomb at Nablus. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak pulled his soldiers out, supposedly with an agreement that the site would be guarded by Palestinian police. The next day those police joined with rioters in demolishing the old domed structure. A new front opened over the weekend, when Hizballah guerrillas darted over the Lebanese border and captured three Israelis. Barak responded with an ultimatum to the Palestinians to end the clashes within 48 hours...
...happening at once [in the 1970s]," he says. "It was the era of boundless expansion and rising stock markets came to a shuddering halt. That increased the financial burdens; you're desperately trying to keep money. The other thing, of course, was there was a great deal of student unrest...
...overriding priority for Beijing's leadership is maintaining order and social control, and liberalizing the economy will necessarily bring unemployment and uncertainty to millions of ordinary Chinese, raising the specter of massive social unrest that could potentially tear China apart. The depth of that fear among the leadership was evident in last year's crackdown on the apparently harmless Falun Gong religious sect, and it will almost certainly act as a brake on Beijing's implementing the economic liberalization measures to which it has agreed. So while the Senate vote ends the annual unpleasantness between Beijing and Washington when Congress...