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Tuesday, December 04, 2001
Judge rejects radical's move to retract guilty plea
(By Linda Deutsch, Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES - A judge refused yesterday to allow Symbionese Liberation Army radical Sara Jane Olson to withdraw her guilty plea to attempting to blow up police cars in 1975.
Philadelphia mob boss sentenced to 14 years
Judge rebuffs call for a longer term
(By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia mob boss Joseph ''Skinny Joey'' Merlino was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for racketeering.
GOP bid to open refuge to oil drilling fails
(By Tom Doggett, Reuters)
WASHINGTON - Legislation to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, a key part of the Bush administration's plan to boost domestic energy supplies, failed to win passage in the Senate yesterday.
High court weighs Fla. Age-bias case
(By Anne Gearan, Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - With layoffs expected at many firms hit by recession, the Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide if older workers may sue over cutbacks that seem to hit them hardest.
US intercepts dummy warhead in test
(By Matt Kelley, Associated Press)
After mystery, hype, scooter rolls out
Invention may zip, but how will it sell?
(By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff)
Apple computer founder Steve Jobs said it could be as big as the personal computer. Other technology gurus predicted that it would be bigger than the Internet, and that the mysterious invention code-named ''It'' or ''Ginger'' would change cities forever.
HOLIDAY
White House, off-limits to most, tries to spread cheer
(By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff)
WASHINGTON - They waited outside the White House for hours to catch a first glimpse of the holiday decor. Then they swarmed into the East Room, gushing praise for the elaborate Christmas garnishes. When food and eggnog were served in the State Dining Room, the line twisted out the door.
Terrorism in brief
(By The Globe)
New York
BORDER PATROL
US, Canada OK historic pact
Partners in trade to tighten security, tackle terrorism
(By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff)
MONTREAL - The United States and Canada yesterday signed a landmark agreement to dramatically intensify security along the world's longest undefended border.
THE CAPITOL
Lobbyists seek badges that allow wide access to legislators
(By Jim Geraghty States News Service)
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress wear lapel pins, and their staff and members of the media wear laminated credentials around their neck. Lobbyists now want their own badges for quick, unhindered access to the Capitol.
IN BONN
Talks near a post-Taliban framework
US persuades Rabbani to yield in breakthrough
(By Brian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent)
KOENIGSWINTER, Germany - After a daylong deadlock, talks on a post-Taliban Afghan government took a giant leap forward last night as rival factions finalized the framework and powers and fine-tuned the makeup of an interim coalition to rule the war-ravaged nation.
PAYING INFORMANTS
Rewards are a weapon in US arsenal
(By John Donnelly, Globe Staff)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Inside his $11 room at the SuCasa guesthouse, Ramzi Yousef stretched out for a nap on a February afternoon in 1995. Outside, teams of Pakistani and US security officers, guns drawn, surrounded the building, ready to pounce on the FBI's most-wanted man. Passersby fled.
3,000 lay down arms as last Taliban give up fight in north
(By David Filipov, Globe Staff)
CHAR DARA, Afghanistan - Thousands of Taliban fighters laid down their weapons and surrendered to Northern Alliance forces yesterday, bringing to an end the puritanical Islamic militia's organized armed resistance in northern Afghanistan.
US backs Israel, softens on Arafat
(By Anthony Shadid a Nd Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff)
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, seeking to accommodate its increasingly conflicting needs in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, offered unswerving support yesterday for Israel with a reluctant recognition that Yasser Arafat remains the only alternative in ending escalating violence.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Mideast violence leaves US coalition vulnerable
(By David M. Shribman, Globe Staff)
WASHINGTON - The latest round of Palestinian suicide bombings and Israeli retaliations raises new perils in the Middle East, raises new questions about how to battle terrorism worldwide, and raises the stakes for all of the principals in the conflict - including, ominously, President Bush, who is commanding a separate terrorism war.
Harrison's ashes to be strewn in Ganges
(By Beth Duff-Brown Associated Press)
NEW DELHI - George Harrison's close ties to Indian mysticism and music sent his wife and son on a pilgrimage to the Ganges River, where authorities said the former Beatle's ashes would be scattered today.
Bosnian Serb on trial for war crimes
(By Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press)
THE HAGUE - A Bosnian Serb commander during the siege of Sarajevo went on trial for war crimes yesterday, accused of ordering his snipers and artillerymen to fire on civilians as they bought bread, tended vegetable gardens, or attended victims' funerals.
Paramilitaries told to disarm
Envoy presses groups in Northern Ireland
(By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press)
DUBLIN - The retired Canadian general trying to persuade Northern Ireland's rival outlawed groups to disarm has said he expects them to get rid of more weapons, senior British and Irish government officials said yesterday.
the World Today
(By The Globe)
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