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WASHINGTON: First RJR sends out word that it wants out of the proposed tobacco deal; then the industry's No. 2 player hastily denies it. But as John McCain's settlement bill in the Senate gets harsher and harsher, the signal was clear: Big Tobacco is thinking about a fight...
...also left huge debts, chief among them a settlement he owed former clients, Anthony Lanasa and his sister Josephine Abbott, from whom he had embezzled the $275,000. After her husband's death, Willey lashed out at Lanasa. "She called me at 3 in the morning and said I killed her husband," he says. "She called two or three times until we got the warrant saying that she couldn't call us." Still, Willey's famous temper (her nickname "Irish" was on her license plate) would not be aimed at the President. Just days after he had allegedly groped...
...vehicles roll over the acres around Sabie, west of the capital of Maputo, destroying the mines, the farmers stream in behind, planting corn and squash, grazing goats and cows. Francisco Mucavele is one of them. For 10 years he was confined within the perimeter of the little settlement of Chavane, bounded by fear of the minefields. "We felt like prisoners in the village," he says. "Now I can go anywhere I want...
...Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, a handshake is never just the meeting of two palms. So when British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK breached an understanding that he would not meet Palestinians at a disputed Jewish settlement and even pressed the flesh of one of their legislators, Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a few choice gestures. He canceled dinner, a press conference and, touche, the usual handshake. Cook, under the misapprehension that diplomacy means saying what you think, shot back, "It's something of a mercy to be spared a further full meal...
WASHINGTON: "Deal" is the wrong word for the tobacco settlement that John McCain spent all weekend wrangling through the Senate Commerce Committee, since Big Tobacco has already turned this one down...