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...gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will be saved is now a near unanimous focal point for Israeli...
...years, there have been at least 85 cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods on supermarket shelves -- such as raisins, cooking oil, tomato paste and flour -- but the federal government is only now getting serious about a crackdown. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today agreed to review and possibly ban 36 pesticides within two years, then set its sights on 49 more as part of an out-of-court settlement with consumer advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The losers in the deal, the American Crop Protection Association, accused the NRDC of trying to ''create a national food scare...
Immigration lawyer Magda Monteil-Davis, who arrived from Cuba in 1961 at the age of eight and lost a race for Congress two years ago, thinks that punishing poor Cubans and those who leave will not bring down Castro. She vents much of her anger at Clinton's crackdown on fellow exiles, who she charges are out of touch with the situation in Cuba. "Most of the Cubans in Miami came out during the 1960s. And the younger ones have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What...
...American National Foundation, a leading voice of the exiles. Accused of being every bit as autocratic as the dictator he despises, Mas Canosa threw his support behind Clinton's decision to bottle up the refugees to keep the pressure on Castro. Mas Canosa insists that the Administration's economic crackdown and its refusal to deal with Castro will eventually embolden Cubans to drive him from power. "We all want a peaceful solution in Cuba, but that's not what Castro wants," he says. "He is leading the country toward a violent | period of change, which I think is inevitable...
...because the FAA says they do not maintain internationally recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...