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...Meanwhile, Arroyo and the military must now track down scores of suspected JI terrorists, including Refke's dining chums. Arroyo says the Philippine military already has special teams "pouring into Mindanao for a manhunt that will not relent until all these fugitives are accounted for." The success of that mission will either help free the country of a dangerous scourge?or touch off another turn in the country's endless cycle of violence...
...State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Those two restrictions must be lifted before the families of the victims can collect an additional $5 million apiece, according to an agreement they negotiated separately with Tripoli. But there are no signs the U.S. is about to relent. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that Washington still has grave concerns about Gaddafi's illicit nuclear-weapons program--and what the official calls the leader's "active and robust" stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. --By Unmesh Kher and Adam Zagorin
...More worrying, a new easy-to-apply testosterone gel was approved for sale. But by the end of last week, Annika Sorenstam emerged from these feminist shadows. Playing coolly and calmly as the first woman in a PGA tournament since 1945, the Swedish golfer provoked even chauvinist curmudgeons to relent...
...North Korea warned last week that it would consider sanctions "the green light to a war." And South Korea, which faces Kim's artillery batteries across the Demilitarized Zone, has long argued against provoking the North by playing tough. Might Roh finally relent, joining Bush in a bid to sever the North's financial lifelines? Not likely, says Chuck Downs, author of Over the Line, a study of North Korea's negotiating tactics, "Their ace in the hole is South Korean fear...
...wasn't it getting through? He asked his aides what had become of all the leaflets being dropped on the Iraqi people and the radio messages beamed their way urging them not to fight for a dying regime. Did the Iraqis understand that Bush, unlike his father, would not relent until Saddam Hussein was dead or captured? Said an aide, "There is this concern that [the Iraqis] think we won't finish...