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...spite of the rising violence, Mubarak confidently asserts that he does not consider the Islamists a serious threat to his government. "The situation is not that unstable," he told TIME's Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer last week. Radical Muslims who oppose peace between Arabs and Israelis, Mubarak is convinced, are working to bring down his government. He is certain they are directed from Iran. "There is no doubt," he said. "The Iranians have said that if they could change the Egyptian regime, they would control the whole area." He says fundamentalists recruited from several Arab countries are being trained...
...spite of the non-ordered choice selection process designed to encourage diversity within the house populations, some of the common house stereotypes seemed to have been confirmed by the year's results, students said...
Informal soccer games were being played yesterday in spite of the mud. But all Cambridge Youth Soccer games have been postponed for a week due to muddy fields, the aftermath of recent heavy rain and snowfalls...
...SPITE OF OUR MISTAKES, AND THERE WERE some, I truly don't think we deserved this," said former Prime Minister Michel Rocard as the returns poured in during the first round of France's parliamentary elections. Voters thought otherwise. Rocked by scandals and blamed for France's 10.5% unemployment rate, the ruling Socialists plunged from 34.7% of the vote in 1988 to 17.6%. The conservative alliance between former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) and ex-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy took 39.5%, which France's voting system was expected...
...Serbian-Bosnian border, in spite of repeated promises, Serbian forces continued to block a U.N. convoy of 16 trucks bound for Srebrenica with 175 tons of food and medicine. No trucks had gone through to the town since Dec. 9, and the only supplies to arrive there were those parachuted in by U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes. Several people were stabbed in struggles over the dropped bundles. Morillon spent eight days futilely trying to open the road for the convoy and start the evacuation of sick and wounded. "We absolutely need this convoy," he said...