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...said "as long as [Indian] forces remain deployed the danger is not over." Pakistan said it wanted talks over the status of Kashmir - a move India said would be premature. SPAIN ETA Arrest A suspected Basque terrorist, Aitzol Maurtua, was detained by police in the town of Algemesi, near Valencia, after a neighbor noticed that his Renault 19 had the license plate of a far older car. The plate had been taken from a scrapped Seat 127 and may have been intended for use in a terror attack. A second suspect, believed to be Iñigo Vallejo, escaped...
...least some of the five were probably staying at the nearby Valencia Motel in Laurel, one of the cheapest motels on a rundown stretch of Route 1. Gail North, a former housekeeper at the motel, did notice that the men were exceedingly private and barely nodded when neighbors said hello. But they never did anything suspicious enough for her to speak up. When the manager at a nearby hotel refused a full refund to one hijacker when he checked out early, the man showed no emotion and didn't make a fuss...
...Gray Lady blew his cover. That must be why AL GORE's staff, according to sources, called the New York Times to complain about a photo the paper ran of the elusive former Veep in Valencia, Spain, sporting--surprise!--a patchy beard. Word is, the beard will come off before the former presidential candidate ends his self-imposed exile and returns from Europe. Apparently he intends to become a freedom fighter for the Democratic Party beginning next week. At an "academy" in Nashville, Tenn., he'll train 25 fresh college graduates to be political operatives, the Times reports. Then...
...rides. And some scientific studies have surfaced in recent months tracing subdural hematomas, or blood clots, to riding high-speed roller coasters. In June, 28-year-old Pearl Santos died of a ruptured brain aneurysm after riding the Goliath roller coaster at the Six Flags Magic Mountain park in Valencia, California...
Juarez, once a dusty border mountain pass, is now Mexico's fourth largest city, with a population of 1.3 million and 50,000 more arriving each year. Huge clusters of tiny workers' houses rise out of the sand and stretch in every direction. "It's instant urbanization," says Nestor Valencia, who directed El Paso's city planning for 11 years. "One year it's a desert. The next it's a city...