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Nearly 100,000 soldiers, paramilitary troops and police patrolled the most volatile areas yesterday to prevent violence...
WHEN Palestinians were shot two weeks ago in Jerusalem, the U.S. moved quickly to get the UN to take action against Israel. Eventually, the U.S. ambassador managed to pass a U.S-sponsored resolution, prevent the more radical PLO resolution from passing and keep the anti-Iraq coalition together. The maneuver was a major victory for Bush's policy in the Gulf--giving Israel the lightest rebuke possible without seeming overly solicitous toward its long-time Friend...
Last Sunday, Rauch won election as the body's chair, beating Hornstein and five other candidates. Hornstein settled for the vice chair, claiming that he had been supporting Rauch from the beginning and had only run for the position to prevent a worse candidate from winning...
That could be difficult to prevent. Some former top Stasi officials may have fled to the KGB or other intelligence services with a wealth of incriminating information that could be used for blackmail or to besmirch the characters of prominent persons. Still others may be offering to keep quiet in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Wolf's successor as head of the intelligence agency, Werner Grossmann, was arrested on Oct. 3 but was freed the next day without being charged. Fischer said Grossmann had probably made an "arrangement" with the West Germans...
...prevent future mishaps, Widing said he is "putting on paper the complete system and defining exactly what needs to be done and how it's done, to ensure that this never happens again...