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Documents creation time: <end_target>2000-04-06</end_target> In hopes of trumping the law, they have unreasonably <end_source>demanded</end_source> that a panel of child psychologists determine Elian's fate.

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Meantime, FBI agents and Metropolitan Police officers assigned to a joint terrorism task force here scanned the crowd of anti-abortion protesters at the annual March for Life on Capitol Hill, because Kopp has been either a participant in or arrested at this march in each of the last three years, according to another law enforcement official, Both officials <start_source>requested</start_source> anonymity. The FBI is conducting further DNA tests of the hair found outside Dr. Slepian's home. This more extensive set of tests could enable officials to declare an absolute match between the two hair strands, the first law enforcement official said. ``Ultimately, we would need to have a hair taken directly from Kopp himself to establish conclusively the hair from scene is his,'' the official added. The official said the hair was in a cap that authorities found very near the location from which the sniper is thought to have fired the rifle bullet that killed Slepian as he stood in the kitchen of his home in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, N.Y. But The Buffalo News reported Friday that the hair was in a packet, with at least two bullets, that was found buried in the ground more than 50 feet from a tree where police believe the sniper stood and fired. Last week, FBI Director Louis Freeh, on an official visit to Mexico, asked Mexican authorities to join the hunt for Kopp, federal officials have said. They believe Kopp was driven to Mexico by a female friend after the shooting, and have a trail of her credit card receipts leading to Mexico, the federal officials have said. In addition, a Customs Service videotape from a border crossing point <end_target>shows</end_target> the woman's car returning from Mexico, these officials said.

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A Justice official, who requested anonymity, <end_source>said</end_source> the department has authority, if necessary, to shift temporary custody to someone other than Lazaro Gonzalez. The boy was placed in his care after being found clinging to an inner tube in the Atlantic last Thanksgiving following a boat wreck that killed his mother and 10 other people. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has ruled in favor of the father's request that the boy be returned to him in Cuba, but that decision was put on hold while the Miami relatives battle in federal court to keep him in this country. Holder said that INS acted appropriately but ``now that we have this new information, we'll have to look at it, and see, like I said, what steps if any are appropriate.'' Florida state records show Lazaro Gonzalez, 49, was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol at least twice from 1991 to 1997. Records also show Lazaro Gonzalez's 62-year-old brother, Delfin Gonzalez, has been found guilty at least twice of driving under the influence. On Wednesday, Ricardo Alarcon, head of Cuba's National Assembly and Castro's key man for U.S.-Cuban relations, said the convictions prove the homes of those uncles are no place for Elian. ``Practically everyone surrounding him either has been, or may be in the future, joining the prison system in the U.S. That's not the best interest of the child,'' Alarcon told reporters in Havana. He said Elian was ``surrounded by two drunks.'' Armando Gutierrez, a spokesman for the Miami relatives, dismissed the criticism: ``Elian is surrounded by love.'' Elian's relatives and other Miami supporters say his mother died to give him freedom. The newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party, daily Gramma, published a letter Thursday from Elian's grandmothers to Reno and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner asking for Elian's return. ``No material good <start_target>exists</start_target> that can compete with the value of the family, and it is humiliating for us that people are still questioning our love and the future that awaits Elian at his home,'' said a Spanish version of the letter, dated Feb. 4.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>19980205</end_target> President Clinton rolled out the red carpet for prime minister Blair, <start_source>welcoming</start_source> him not only as a close ally, but a close friend.

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On <end_target>Sunday</end_target>, Tanzanian police and FBI agents said they had made ``extraordinary discoveries,'' having determined what the Dar es Salaam bomb was made of and who carried it to the embassy. They refused to provide details. Media reports in Tanzania have said the ingredients for the bombs had originated in the Middle East and were transferred by sea via the Comoro Islands to Tanzania. Reports in Kenya said the components of the bomb that exploded in Nairobi were transported by road from Tanzania to Kenya. The East African nations share a long and mostly unguarded border. On Sept. 2, police in the Comoros archipelago, off the Tanzanian coast, raided two homes and searched for a suspect in the bombings identified as Abdallah Mohammed Fadhul, a Comorian Muslim who had lived with his wife in Sudan until shortly after the <start_source>bombings</start_source>.

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Such a decision would allow the U.S. government to push for the 6-year-old boy's swift reunion in Washington with his <start_source>waiting</start_source> father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who wants to return to Cuba. He has said he will wait out appeals by the Miami relatives seeking an asylum hearing for Elian before the same court -- but only if he has custody of his son. There was growing apprehension outside the Little Havana home where the boy has lived with his great-uncle for nearly five months. ''The feeling is the Clinton administration might send federal agents to pull him out of here,'' said Sergio Navarro, a 39-year-old Miami businessman who spent part of Sunday night with chanting protesters. Elian's relatives have cared for him since November, when he was found clinging to an inner tube in the Florida Straits. His mother and 10 other people fleeing Cuba drowned when their boat sank. The Clinton administration has pushed for the boy's return to his father, ruling only he can speak for his son on immigration matters. The boy's Miami relatives say he will have a better life here and have attempted to portray Juan Miguel Gonzalez as a pawn of Fidel Castro. The Justice Department wants the appeals court to suspend the temporary injunction issued Thursday and also order Elian's great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, to release the boy. The relatives want the court to let them meet with Elian's father without being required to surrender the boy. The court watch comes after one of the most bitter charges yet in the custody battle. Juan Miguel Gonzalez lashed out at his Miami relatives Sunday night, accusing them of ''child abuse'' for turning his son against him. He said they have manipulated his son to believe that his mother still may show up someday -- in this country. ''This is child abuse and mistreatment, what they're doing to this boy,'' Gonzalez said on CBS's ''60 Minutes.'' ''The way they're abusing him, turning him against his father ... he's suffering more here amongst them than he suffered in the sea.'' Gonzalez said he didn't believe a much-publicized video taped at the relatives' home in which his son said he didn't want to go. He has spoken with Elian at least three times since he arrived in the United States on April 6, and he insisted his son wants to return to Cuba. ''He's told me so,'' Gonzalez said. The Miami relatives are ``putting a bunch of toys in front of a 6-year-old. He cannot decide for himself. The one that decides for him is me, his father.'' Elian's Miami relatives have <start_target>filed</start_target> affidavits alleging Gonzalez abused his former wife and his 6-year-old son, a charge Gonzalez denied.

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Albright, after a 16-hour flight, is scheduled to spend only five hours on the ground in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, her first stop <start_target>Tuesday morning</start_target>, and then about 5 1/2 hours in Nairobi, Kenya, later in the day before returning immediately home. Albright's visit to East Africa was designed in part to demonstrate U.S. resolve in the face of growing terrorist threats to Americans. Some Kenyans have complained that after the Nairobi bombing, rescuers gave priority to finding American victims and to protecting evidence at the expense of saving African lives. But Albright and other U.S. officials have strongly disputed that notion, saying the priority had been rescuing all possible, African and American. On Friday, when Albright set aside vacation plans for the hastily planned trip to East Africa, the State Department lifted a warning against travel to Kenya, whose economy relies heavily on foreign visitors, to further ease any strain in the aftermath of the tragedy. Just ahead of Albright's one-day trip, the State Department on Sunday issued an updated ``worldwide caution'' to U.S. travelers in the aftermath of the Aug. 7 bombings at American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and because of fresh threats to U.S. interests abroad. An accompanying statement specifically warned ``against all travel to Pakistan.'' The State Department also ordered the departure of all non-emergency personnel and families of employees from the embassy at Islamabad and from U.S. consulates in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. The warnings came after Pakistan handed over to Kenyan officials a suspect in the U.S. Embassy bombings, Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, also known as Mohammad Sadiq Howaida and Abdull Bast Awadh. The first batch of evidence from the Nairobi bombing arrived over the weekend at the FBI lab at the bureau's Washington headquarters and is being analyzed, FBI officials said Monday. Many more shipments are expected, but the first batch contained cotton swabs taken at the blast site in hopes of picking up microscopic residues that could positively identify what the bomb was made of. A U.S. official said last week that field tests suggested the presence of a Czech-made plastic explosive called Semtex that has been <end_source>used</end_source> by terrorist groups before.

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Aetna Life amp Casualty Co.'s <end_target>third-quarter</end_target> net income fell 22% to $182.6 million, or $1.63 a share, reflecting the damages from Hurricane Hugo and lower <end_source>results</end_source> for some of the company's major divisions.

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It was not immediately known if the arrest <end_source>announced</end_source> today stemmed from the indictment. Bin Laden, who is <end_target>accused</end_target> of masterminding the attack, is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.

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FBI Director Louis Freeh <end_target>said</end_target> the U.S. government is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of Bin Laden, indicted as the architect of the twin bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Aug. 7, 1998, bombings killed more than 200 people, including 12 Americans. It is the largest reward the government has ever offered for a fugitive. A total of $650,000, meanwhile, is being offered for information leading to the arrest of Kopp, who is charged with gunning down Dr. Barnett Slepian last fall in his home in Buffalo, N.Y. Slepian provided legal abortions in western New York state. The standard $50,000 reward for information leading to a listed fugitive's capture comes on top of a $500,000 reward announced earlier by Attorney General Janet Reno, plus a $100,000 award offered previously by the FBI. Reno said Bin Laden and Kopp <start_source>have</start_source> one thing in common: Each wrongly believes he is justified in using all means possible to achieve his goal.

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HAVANA (AP) -- Calling the mother of Elian Gonzalez ``an excellent girl,'' President Fidel Castro said Friday she had been ``practically kidnapped'' by the boyfriend who perished along with her on the boat <end_source>wreck</end_source> her 6-year-old son survived. Castro's remarks to a conference of economists were aimed at those who say that Elian should remain in the United States because his mother sacrificed his life to take her to ``freedom,'' a vision he called a cliche. He placed the blame on Lazaro Rafael Munero, who apparently organized the ill-fated journey on which Elian's mother Elisabeth Brotons and 10 other people -- including Munero -- died. Castro called Munero -- who reportedly drove a taxi and engaged in unofficial businesses in the Cuban city of Cardenas -- a ``ruffian'' on whom Cuban police had amassed ''100 pages of reports.'' According to sources quoted by the Miami Herald, Munero had fled to Florida in June 1998 and returned to Cuba later that year, only to be jailed for several months. ``The mother was practically kidnapped along with the boy'' to make the late-November trip, Castro said. The Cuban leader said Elian had been especially loved by his parents because the mother had earlier suffered seven miscarriages. Earlier <end_target>Friday</end_target>, Cuba's communist government celebrated the birth of independence hero Jose Marti on Friday with rallies calling for the return of Elian Gonzalez, the ``boy martyr'' at the center of an international custody battle.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>19980305</start_target> She says her group is <start_source>appealing</start_source> to individuals, to the international community, and to the combatants and people of Afghanistan to stop the bloodletting which has torn the country apart.

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Mutual fund officials <end_source>say</end_source> that investors have transferred most of it into their money market accounts, and to a lesser extent, government-bond funds. So the impact on the $950 billion mutual fund industry as a whole probably will be slight. But tremors are likely in the junk-bond market, which has <start_target>helped</start_target> to finance the takeover boom of recent years.

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Bowing to criticism, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer joined PaineWebber in <end_source>suspending</end_source> stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts. Still, stock-index funds are expected to continue launching big programs through the market. Several Big Board firms are organizing to complain about program trading and the exchange's role in it. The effort is being led by Contel. Personal spending rose 0.2% in September, the smallest gain in a year. The slowdown raises questions about the economy's strength because spending fueled much of the third-quarter GNP growth. Meanwhile, personal income edged up 0.3%. Factory owners are buying new machinery at a healthy rate this fall, machine-tool makers say. But weak car sales raise questions about future demand from the auto sector. Southern's Gulf Power unit may plead guilty this week to charges it illegally steered company money to politicians through third parties. The tentative pact would <start_target>resolve</start_target> part of a broad investigation of the Atlanta-based company in the past year.

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Elian, the boy at the center of the international dispute, was found clinging to an inner tube Nov. 25 off the coast of Florida after his mother, stepfather and others died in a failed <end_target>attempt</end_target> to reach U.S. shores. He has been staying with relatives in Miami who do not want to send him back to Cuba. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had ruled that Elian must be returned to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and set Friday as the deadline for his repatriation to Cuba. But this week, Attorney General Janet Reno lifted the deadline to give Elian's relatives in Miami a chance to fight in federal court to keep the boy with them. Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly and Castro's point man on U.S.-Cuban relations, told The Associated Press that Cuban authorities are frustrated by Reno's failure to set a new deadline and the INS's failure to enforce its decision. ``No enforcement action was ever announced by the INS,'' he said. Alarcon, former Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, dismissed suggestions by some U.S. politicians and Elian's relatives in Miami that Elian's father travel from Cardenas, Cuba, to Miami to pick up the boy. He said Cuba has not prohibited Gonzalez from going to Miami to retrieve Elian, American attorneys -- and even American officials -- have counseled against it. ``We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not advisable for this man to appear in U.S. territory,'' said Alarcon. The concern in Cuba always has been that if Gonzalez goes he will immediately become involved in political and legal problems that will prevent his speedy return. Elian's paternal grandmother, Mariela, told reporters that she was willing to go to Miami to retrieve her grandson if it was assured to her that she could pick him up and return immediately to Cuba without become embroiled in legal or political problems. ``I would go there just for one minute to get him. To get him. Nothing more,'' she said. Since his sea rescue, Elian has been increasingly referred to in Cuba as ``our son,'' a boy hero symbolizing the government's decades-long ideological battle with Cuban exiles in Miami. Rather than a clash between two governments, the dispute over Elian is a battle between Cubans of differing political views living on both sides of the Florida Straits. Reno allowed the extension of the deadline after rejecting a Florida state court order that Elian remain in Miami until March 6 to hear arguments by his American relatives. Reno said the state court had no jurisdiction in the case, but that the Miami relatives should be able to make their case in federal court. Elian's paternal great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, is fighting to <end_source>keep</end_source> the boy with him in Miami, saying he can give the child a better life outside Cuba.

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Hadson Corp. said it expects to report a <start_target>third-quarter</start_target> net loss of $17 million to $19 million because of special reserves and continued low natural-gas prices. The Oklahoma City energy and defense concern said it will record a $7.5 million reserve for its defense group, including a $4.7 million charge related to problems under a fixed-price development contract and $2.8 million in overhead costs that won't be reimbursed. In addition, Hadson said it will write off about $3.5 million in costs related to international exploration leases where exploration efforts have been unsuccessful. The company also cited interest costs and amortization of goodwill as factors in the loss. A year earlier, net <end_source>income</end_source> was $2.1 million, or six cents a share, on revenue of $169.9 million.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>August 13</end_target> The State Department and the Office of Management and Budget will jointly make the assessments "in the next few days," and the president will <end_source>present</end_source> the report to Congress for more emergency funding.

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Mohamed, 24, allegedly rented a house in his native Tanzania which was <start_source>used</start_source> as a bomb factory. In Cape Town, South Africa, police spokesman Capt. Rod Beer said the FBI arrested Mohamed at the city's airport in the early hours of Thursday morning as he was about to be deported for being in the country illegally. The Cape Argus newspaper in Cape Town <start_target>reported</start_target> that a search has been launched for accomplices in the region.

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This more extensive set of tests could enable officials to <start_source>declare</start_source> an absolute match between the two hair strands, the first law enforcement official said. ``Ultimately, we would need to have a hair taken directly from Kopp himself to establish conclusively the hair from scene is his,'' the official added. The official said the hair was in a cap that authorities found very near the location from which the sniper is thought to have fired the rifle bullet that killed Slepian as he stood in the kitchen of his home in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, N.Y. But The Buffalo News reported Friday that the hair was in a packet, with at least two bullets, that was found buried in the ground more than 50 feet from a tree where police believe the sniper stood and fired. Last week, FBI Director Louis Freeh, on an official visit to Mexico, asked Mexican authorities to join the hunt for Kopp, federal officials have said. They believe Kopp was driven to Mexico by a female friend after the shooting, and have a trail of her credit card receipts leading to Mexico, the federal officials have said. In addition, a Customs Service videotape from a border crossing point shows the woman's car returning from Mexico, these officials <end_target>said</end_target>.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>1998-08-20</start_target> <start_source>Retaliating</start_source> 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces Thursday launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan.

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Albright also used her speech to <end_source>articulate</end_source> a forward-looking vision for NATO, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Washington next month, and to defend NATO's potential involvement in Kosovo. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat <end_target>posed</end_target> by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.''

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In a related <start_source>move</start_source>, Pierre Lortie, chairman and chief executive, resigned. Mr. Lortie joined Provigo in 1985 and spearheaded the company's drive to grow outside its traditional food business. He couldn't be reached for comment. Bertin Nadeau, newly appointed chairman and interim chief executive of Provigo, wouldn't say if Mr. Lortie was asked to leave. "Mr. Lortie felt less pertinent," Mr. Nadeau said, given the decision to dump Provigo's non-food operations. "At this stage it was felt I was perhaps more pertinent as chief executive." Mr. Nadeau also is chairman and chief executive of Unigesco Inc., Provigo's controlling shareholder. At a news conference, Mr. Nadeau said the sale of the three non-food businesses, which account for nearly half the company's C$900 million in assets, should be completed in a "matter of months." The three units are a nationwide pharmaceutical and health-products distributor, a small sporting-goods chain, and a combination catalog showroom and toy-store chain. Investors and analysts applauded the news. Provigo was the most active industrial stock on the Montreal Exchange, where it closed at C$9.75 (US$8.32), up 75 Canadian cents. "I think it's a pretty positive development," said Ross Cowan, a financial analyst with Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc., of the decision to concentrate on groceries. Mr. Lortie's departure, while sudden, was seen as inevitable in light of the shift in strategy. "The non-food operations were largely Mr. Lortie's creation {and} his strategy didn't work," said Steven Holt, a financial analyst with Midland Doherty Ltd. Provigo's profit record over the past two years tarnished the company's and Mr. Lortie's reputations. For the six months ended Aug. 12, Provigo posted net income of C$6.5 million, or eight Canadian cents a share, compared with C$18.1 million, or 21 Canadian cents a share, a year earlier. Sales were C$4.2 billion compared with C$3.7 billion. Last month, Canadian Bond Rating Service downgraded Provigo's commercial paper and debentures because of its lackluster performance. Analysts are <end_target>skeptical</end_target> Provigo will be able to sell the non-food businesses as a group for at least book value, and are expecting write-downs.

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"We anticipate that steel market conditions will exhibit a further moderate <end_source>decline</end_source> in the fourth quarter as the automotive sector remains weak and customers <start_target>continue</start_target> to adjust inventories," said Bethlehem Chairman Walter F. Williams.

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The protest marked a return to the larger demonstrations of early December, when hundreds of thousands of people rallied in some of Cuba's biggest gatherings since the <start_target>triumph</start_target> of the revolution that brought President Castro to power 41 years ago. Elian, the boy at the center of the international dispute, was found clinging to an inner tube Nov. 25 off the coast of Florida after his mother, stepfather and others died in a failed attempt to reach U.S. shores. He has been staying with relatives in Miami who do not want to send him back to Cuba. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had ruled that Elian must be returned to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and set Friday as the deadline for his repatriation to Cuba. But this week, Attorney General Janet Reno lifted the deadline to give Elian's relatives in Miami a chance to fight in federal court to keep the boy with them. Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly and Castro's point man on U.S.-Cuban relations, told The Associated Press that Cuban authorities are frustrated by Reno's failure to set a new deadline and the INS's failure to enforce its decision. ``No enforcement action was ever announced by the INS,'' he said. Alarcon, former Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, dismissed suggestions by some U.S. politicians and Elian's relatives in Miami that Elian's father travel from Cardenas, Cuba, to Miami to pick up the boy. He said Cuba has not prohibited Gonzalez from going to Miami to retrieve Elian, American attorneys -- and even American officials -- have counseled against it. ``We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not advisable for this man to appear in U.S. territory,'' said Alarcon. The concern in Cuba always has been that if Gonzalez goes he will immediately become involved in political and legal problems that will prevent his speedy return. Elian's paternal grandmother, Mariela, told reporters that she was willing to go to Miami to retrieve her grandson if it was assured to her that she could pick him up and return immediately to Cuba without become embroiled in legal or political problems. ``I would go there just for one minute to get him. To get him. Nothing more,'' she said. Since his sea rescue, Elian has been increasingly referred to in Cuba as ``our son,'' a boy hero symbolizing the government's decades-long ideological battle with Cuban exiles in Miami. Rather than a clash between two governments, the <start_source>dispute</start_source> over Elian is a battle between Cubans of differing political views living on both sides of the Florida Straits.

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Over and over, Cuban Americans <start_source>said</start_source> that outsiders who did not suffer under the Castro regime simply could not understand their passions in the Elian standoff. As talk on the streets swirled, talks between lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives and government officials crept to an uneventful close. U.S. Immigration officials <end_target>postponed</end_target> until Tuesday morning any action on revoking the boy's temporary permission to stay in the United States, which would allow federal officials to, ultimately, take the boy from his relatives' house and eventually return him to Cuba.

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Albright also used her speech to articulate a forward-looking vision for NATO, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Washington next month, and to <end_source>defend</end_source> NATO's potential involvement in Kosovo. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat <start_target>posed</start_target> by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.''

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WASHINGTON _ The bombings at the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania have frightened away travelers from East Africa just as Kenya was hoping for an end to a years-old slump in foreign tourism, and as Tanzania was finally <start_source>beginning</start_source> to reap the benefits from a major investment in the travel industry. Tour operators who specialize in travel in Kenya and Tanzania, which boast some of Africa's best game parks and sunniest beaches, say there have been no mass cancellations as a result of the Aug. 7 Embassy bombings in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which left more than 250 people dead. But they report a number of worried calls from prospective travelers, many of them alarmed by the possibility of more terrorist <end_target>attacks</end_target> in the region.

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Geremek <start_source>said</start_source> he had brought some appropriate mementoes from Poland to the Truman library, including a campaign poster from 1989 when the anti-communist Solidarity forces won against the Communists. The poster showed a picture of Gary Cooper from the film ``High Noon.'' ``It <end_target>helped</end_target> us to win,'' Geremek said.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>2000-01-15</end_target> He <start_source>said</start_source> Cuba has not prohibited Gonzalez from going to Miami to retrieve Elian, American attorneys -- and even American officials -- have counseled against it.

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(Undated) Elian Gonzalez will remain in the United States for at least <start_target>two more weeks</start_target> even after a federal appeals court Thursday refused to order a political asylum hearing for the fought-over Cuban child. Elian could be forced to stay longer if the Miami relatives who are seeking asylum for the child over his Cuban father's objections pursue further appeals. Attorney Kendall Coffey said his clients were <end_source>giving</end_source> an appeal to the Supreme Court ``serious consideration.''

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D'Amato's aides would not <start_target>comment</start_target> about the political ramifications of the slaying, and Schumer's aides would not talk about whether they planned to refer to it in any advertisements, or whether the candidate planned to use it on the campaign trail. ``Both Senator D'Amato and Chuck Schumer agree this was a horrific crime and a horrible tragedy,'' said Josh Isay, Schumer's campaign manager. But, Isay added, ``it heightens the abortion issue.'' Steven Goldstein, the campaign spokesman for Spitzer, was less reticent. ``Eliot is going to make a huge priority of this,'' Goldstein said. ``Stopping clinic violence is going to be a major theme of our campaign from now to Election Day.'' In Sunday's debate against Vacco, Spitzer attacked him for failing to enforce a court order in 1992 against anti-abortion protesters who had blocked the entrance to a clinic. It was the same clinic where Slepian worked. A federal judge removed Vacco, then the U.S. attorney for western New York, from the case. He was replaced with two special prosecutors. Spitzer also criticized Vacco for dismantling the Office of Reproductive Rights, which investigated threats and crimes against abortion clinics, when he became attorney general. On Monday, Spitzer called for Vacco to revive that unit immediately, vowing that he would do so on his first day in office if elected. Goldstein, who said it was ``thoroughly, thoroughly possible'' that the issue would surface in Spitzer's advertisements, defended the use of the issue by noting that the attorney general has direct impact on the issue of clinic access. Vacco's campaign manager, Matt Behrmann, said in a statement that Spitzer had ``sunk to a new and despicable low by attempting to capitalize on the murder of a physician in order to garner votes.'' ``It's possible that New York politics has never seen anything as crass as Eliot Spitzer's willingness to exploit the unfortunate murder of Slepian as a steppingstone for his own political ambitions,'' Berhrmann said. Several consultants agreed that there might be political hay to be <end_source>made</end_source> in Slepian's death but that it had to be done carefully.

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to <start_target>face</start_target> ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.'' In Kosovo, where the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is resisting the deployment of NATO-led troops, including 4,000 U.S. soldiers, Albright insisted that NATO was the best tool to enforce a peace settlement. ``We must be clear in explaining that a settlement without NATO-led enforcement is not acceptable because only NATO has the credibility and capability to make it work,'' she said. ``And we must be resolute in spelling out the consequences of intransigence,'' she added, referring to the threat of NATO air strikes against Milosevic if he does not agree to the deployment. But in many ways, the day belonged to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, who in order to meet NATO's standards have had to cut the size of their Soviet-style militaries, organize civilian control of their armies and agree to buy NATO compatible equipment in the coming years. It was the spiritual homecoming to the West that all three foreign ministers stressed. ``Poland forever returns where she has always belonged _ the free world,'' said Bronislaw Geremek, the foreign minister of Poland, who was a dissident during the Communist era. Geremek said he had brought some appropriate mementoes from Poland to the Truman library, including a campaign poster from 1989 when the anti-communist Solidarity forces won against the Communists. The poster showed a picture of Gary Cooper from the film ``High Noon.'' ``It helped us to win,'' Geremek said. ``For the people of Poland, high noon comes today.'' The Czech foreign minister, Jan Kavan, who lived in London from 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, until 1989, <end_source>said</end_source> he had remained buoyant during his opposition work as an emigre by believing that communism would eventually fall.

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She told African envoys that she <start_source>looked</start_source> forward to <end_target>visiting</end_target> Kenya and Tanzania but would wait until she could do so without placing undue burdens on the heavily stretched U.S. embassies there.

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Ford might <start_source>succeed</start_source> because many shareholders are speculators keen for a full bid or institutional investors unhappy over Jaguar management's handling of its current financial difficulties. The government probably wouldn't give in readily to a hostile foray by Ford, however. It has relinquished a golden share only once before -- during British Petroleum Co.'s #2.5 billion ( $4 billion ) takeover of Britoil PLC in 1988. In wooing British lawmakers, GM has pointed out that its willingness to settle for a minority stake would keep Jaguar British-owned and independent. This week, the U.S. auto giant paid for 10 House of Commons members and two House of Lords members to fly to Detroit and <end_target>tour</end_target> its operations there.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>02/25/91</start_target> Perhaps more important, it <end_source>appears</end_source> that allied troops haven't yet fully engaged Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard, which has been sitting just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border and is considered the most potent element in the Iraqi defense.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>1998-09-11</start_target> It gave no reason for the expulsions and Tanzania's criminal investigation and immigration departments could not be <start_source>reached</start_source> for comment.

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Gonzalez's lawyer, Greg Craig, <end_source>asked</end_source> for a visa Thursday for his client for the expected visit, but was told by U.S. State Department officials that Gonzalez himself had to apply for the visa at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana. ``Juan Miguel Gonzalez is ready at a moment's notice to come to the United States,'' said Craig. But in Miami, many Cuban Americans said Castro is orchestrating the visit. Castro said Gonzalez would travel with his current wife and their son, a top government official, doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, Elian's Cuban kindergarten teacher, classmates and his old school desk.A list of 31 people issued by the Cuban government Thursday included Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly. Castro has suggested that Elian and his relatives stay at the residence of Cuba's chief diplomat in Washington. Hidden in the entourage, cautioned Cuban Americans here, will be Cuban security agents who will make sure that Gonzalez _ and everyone else, for that matter _ does not defect. ``They are coming with everyone, including psychologists,'' said Armando Sanjurjo, 73. ``You know why? To give Elian an injection and take him back to Cuba.'' Sanjurjo, sipping a cafecito in front of Versailles restaurant, the nerve center for Cuban political discussions here in Little Havana, is convinced, like many others here, the entourage is designed to prevent any defections. ``He's coming with an entire court of people? What's that about?'' said Angela Esparragera, 71. Miranda said Elian's father will be ``a virtual prisoner here if he comes with all those people. He'll be surrounded by people if he goes to the bathroom.'' Gloria Estefan, the wildly popular singer of Cuban descent who has become an entertainment and cultural icon, was also suspicious of this visit. ``If in fact, Elian's father is permitted by the dictatorship of Fidel Castro to come to the United States, then, as a Cuban American, I <end_target>welcome</end_target> him and urge him to make all his decisions based on the well being and best interest of his son, and not that of the Cuban government,'' Estefan said.

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The New York Times said in an editorial on Thursday, April 6: Juan Miguel Gonzalez has made the right decision to travel to the United States on <start_target>Thursday</start_target> to affirm his desire to be reunited with his son, Elian. His presence on American soil is necessary to dispel doubts about his fitness as a father _ raised maliciously by Elian's Miami relatives _ and to end speculation that he is indifferent about reclaiming custody of his son. With Gonzalez all but out of sight in Cuba, the relatives have had a free hand to distort the case with bogus legal arguments and unsubstantiated claims that Elian is afraid to see his father. The relatives are obviously fond of Elian, though their judgment has clearly been clouded by their animosity toward Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader. Once Gonzalez comes to the United States _ it would be preferable if he went to Miami rather than to Washington _ only the most obdurate foes of Castro can argue that Elian should not be reunited with him. Gonzalez's arrival should also help clear the way for the Justice Department to make arrangements to transfer custody of the child. The Miami relatives have left unclear whether they will willingly relinquish custody of Elian, and have done their best to stir passions against the Justice Department among Cuban-Americans in South Florida. In hopes of trumping the law, they have unreasonably demanded that a panel of child psychologists determine Elian's fate. The best outcome would be for the relatives to turn Elian over to his father as soon as Gonzalez arrives, and to do so in a spirit of kinship that makes the transition as smooth as possible for Elian. Once that happens, Gonzalez and Elian, though technically free to return to Cuba, should remain here to await an appellate court ruling on the case, which is expected next month. But if the relatives balk, the Justice Department should quickly revoke their custody of the child and obtain a federal court order instructing them and their lawyers to turn Elian over to his father. The relatives may be less defiant if they are held in contempt of court. If a court edict fails to compel <end_source>compliance</end_source>, the Justice Department will have to consider sterner measures, for the relatives will then be resisting the rule of law as defined by both the department and the courts.

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HAVANA (AP) -- While an important step, the U.S. government decision to return 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to Cuba does not guarantee that the boy will be <start_source>repatriated</start_source>, the communist leadership warned. ``Nothing is certain concerning his return to Cuba,'' said a government communique, read Wednesday night at a pro-Elian rally attended by President Fidel Castro. Cuban exiles in Miami will now ``proceed with all their resources to impede or delay'' the decision by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The government exhorted citizens to keep up mass protests pressing for Elian's return until the boy comes home. ``We cannot stop mobilizing! The struggle must not stop for one minute!'' said the message, read during the rally of several thousand Cuban scientists by Hassan Perez, president of the government's University Students Federation. Cuba appealed to world opinion, and American opinion in particular, to help prevent its enemies in Miami from trying to block the child's return. Found clinging to an inner tube off the coast of Florida in late November, Elian has been the subject of an international custody battle. His mother <end_target>died</end_target> trying to get Elian and herself to the United States.

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JOHANNESBURG, August 7 (Xinhua) -- South Africa deplored <start_target>Friday</start_target> the bomb blasts which killed scores of people and injured more than 1,000 others outside embassies of the United States in Kenya and Tanzania earlier in the day. A statement by the Foreign Affairs Department described the attacks as senseless. "The South African government deplores these senseless acts against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and would like to express its condolences to the victims of the explosions," the statement said. Reports reaching here said a massive <start_source>blast</start_source> damaged the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, killing 40 people while wounding at least 1,000 people.

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Much of Columbia's junk-bond trading has been <end_source>done</end_source> through the high-yield department of its Beverly Hills neighbor, Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. For the nine months, losses totaled $212 million, or $10.83 a share, compared with net income of $48.7 million, or $1.11 a share, a year earlier. The results include a $130.2 million write-down of the securities in the high-yield portfolio to the lower of their cost or market value. Columbia also added $227.3 million to reserves for losses on the portfolio, increasing general reserves to $300 million, or about 6.7% of the total portfolio, as of Sept. 30. On June 30, loss reserves stood at $108.3 million. Thrift officials said the $300 million reserve will be adjusted quarterly and will reflect the rate of dispositions and market conditions. The adjustments result from the recently passed thrift-industry bailout legislation, which <end_target>requires</end_target> thrifts to divest all high-yield bond investments by 1994.

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Scharping, ending a two-day visit, said Poland was well <end_source>prepared</end_source> to join the alliance. Germany has been a strong advocate of Poland's access to NATO, saying it will <end_target>serve</end_target> European security and stability.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>1998-08-18</start_target> ``These bombings will not cause America to back down or retreat,'' she <start_source>declared</start_source>.

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``We will look at that, <start_target>try</start_target> to make some kind of factual determination and then decide what steps, if any, need to be taken.'' In addition, the department is still considering a <end_source>request</end_source> last week from Elian's father in Cuba, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, to have Elian's temporary custody shifted from his great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez to another great-uncle, Manolo Gonzalez.

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Reading from Cuban intelligence documents on state television, Castro said a group of Cuban-Americans in Miami was <start_source>studying</start_source> the possibility of taking Elian and his Miami relatives to a third nation, probably Nicaragua or Costa Rica. Castro <end_target>said</end_target> his government had shared its concerns with the U.S. State Department about the possibility of such a move ''which could cause damage not only to a child, but to the reputation of the United States.''

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Immigration officials escorted the Libyan, Atif Issa Enhamed, to the airport and put him on a flight to an undisclosed Middle East destination, <start_target>said</start_target> Uhuru, or Freedom, a Swahili newspaper owned by the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. Five Iraqis, whose names were not disclosed, also were deported, the newspaper said. It gave no reason for the expulsions and Tanzania's criminal investigation and immigration departments could not be reached for comment. Nearly simultaneous bombings at U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 7 killed 258 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 5,500 people. Of those killed, 11 were killed in Tanzania. Two key suspects in the Kenya bombing have been handed over to the United States for trial. American authorities allege the attacks were plotted by Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. On Sunday, Tanzanian police and FBI agents said they had made ``extraordinary discoveries,'' having determined what the Dar es Salaam bomb was made of and who <end_source>carried</end_source> it to the embassy.

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``I feel for this child,'' Juanita Castro <start_source>said</start_source>. ``This has become too politicized, in both Cuba and Miami, and too many people are profiting from this tragedy. I think people have forgotten that this is a human issue.'' Juanita Castro, who arrived in Miami in 1961, believes the custody of the child should be worked out between his family members. She is not certain whether the boy should stay in the United States, but she feels that since he's been here so long, he should be afforded the opportunity to live in a free country. When asked if she <start_target>thought</start_target> the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, was being controlled by the Cuban government even though he has been in Bethesda, Md., for the last week, she frowned.

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Many more shipments are expected, but the first batch <end_source>contained</end_source> cotton swabs <start_target>taken</start_target> at the blast site in hopes of picking up microscopic residues that could positively identify what the bomb was made of.

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``We will keep fighting with the laws ... so Elian Gonzalez can live in a free country like his mother <start_source>wanted</start_source>,'' Lazaro Gonzalez said. President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno <end_target>praised</end_target> the ruling, with both stressing their confidence that Juan Miguel Gonzalez is the best person to raise his child.

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``Countries have the right to defend themselves and their citizens against terrorism and New Zealand <start_target>appreciates</start_target> and understands the steps the United States has taken,'' McKinnon said. The embassy <end_source>bombings</end_source>, on Aug. 7, killed 247 people in Kenya and 10 in Tanzania.

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If the Immigration and Naturalization Service order that Elian must be returned to his father in Cuba is to be contested, Reno <end_target>ruled</end_target> correctly that the only proper venue is federal court, not state or local. If and when the relatives' appeal goes to federal court, chances of a favorable ruling are slim. First of all, the INS already has <start_source>taken</start_source> the position the only person who can petition for U.S. asylum for Elian is his father, which he is not about to do.

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``We must be clear in explaining that a settlement without NATO-led <start_target>enforcement</start_target> is not acceptable because only NATO has the credibility and capability to make it work,'' she said. ``And we must be resolute in spelling out the consequences of intransigence,'' she added, referring to the threat of NATO air strikes against Milosevic if he does not agree to the deployment. But in many ways, the day belonged to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, who in order to meet NATO's standards have had to cut the size of their Soviet-style militaries, organize civilian control of their armies and agree to buy NATO compatible equipment in the coming years. It was the spiritual homecoming to the West that all three foreign ministers stressed. ``Poland forever returns where she has always belonged _ the free world,'' said Bronislaw Geremek, the foreign minister of Poland, who was a dissident during the Communist era. Geremek said he had brought some appropriate mementoes from Poland to the Truman library, including a campaign poster from 1989 when the anti-communist Solidarity forces won against the Communists. The poster showed a picture of Gary Cooper from the film ``High Noon.'' ``It helped us to win,'' Geremek said. ``For the people of Poland, high noon comes today.'' The Czech foreign minister, Jan Kavan, who lived in London from 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, until 1989, said he had remained buoyant during his opposition work as an emigre by believing that communism would eventually fall. But he never dreamed, he said, that his country would become a member of NATO. ``Accession to NATO is a guarantee that we will never again become powerless victims of any foreign aggression,'' Kavan said. Similarly, the Hungarian foreign minister, Janos Martonyi, who remembers the 1956 uprising as a 13-year-old, said that membership of NATO meant that Hungary was returning ``to her natural habitat.'' ``It has been our manifest destiny to rejoin those with whom we share the same values, interests and goals,'' he said. But Martonyi also emphasized that Hungary understood NATO membership carried with it obligations as well as privileges. ``We shall prove that new members can indeed add to the weight of the alliance,'' he said. The location for Friday's ceremony was chosen by Albright, who as secretary of state is the depository of NATO's accession accords. The secretary made the fairly unorthodox decision to choose a site outside Washington because she wanted the ceremony to resonate with the memories of President Truman, under whom NATO was founded. On April 4, 1949, on behalf of the United States, Truman's secretary of state, Dean Acheson, signed the Washington Treaty, which created NATO. Acheson is Albright's favorite predecessor, her aides <end_source>said</end_source>.

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Perhaps more important, it appears that allied troops haven't yet fully engaged Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard, which has been <end_source>sitting</end_source> just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border and is considered the most potent element in the Iraqi defense. It remains to be seen how much damage the allied air campaign was able to inflict on the Guard, and whether President Hussein will commit his most valued troops to a fight-to-the-death finish. Certainly Saddam Hussein continues to implore his country to fight on. "Fight them," he urged Iraqis in a radio address. "All Iraqis, fight them with all the power you have, and all struggle for everything." American war planners have long assumed that the early stage of the ground attack, in which American forces would use their speed to sweep around Iraqi defenses and their strength to punch through the relatively weak Iraqi front line, would be the easiest part. Despite these early successes, the mere fact that a ground campaign has begun almost guarantees that the Bush administration will face fresh problems <end_target>growing</end_target> out of the military situation.

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It was not clear whether the Gonzalez family would come to Miami to <start_source>get</start_source> Elian or if instead they would travel to Washington, D.C. Cuban President Fidel Castro has said they would live in the home of a Cuban diplomat in the Washington area until the court case surrounding Elian's fate is resolved. Visas for the entourage of more than 20 teachers, classmates and others _ including Ricardo Alarcon, Cuban National Assembly president _ that Castro wants to accompany the family were not yet approved, officials <start_target>said</start_target>.

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The directors said if Messrs. Drabinsky and Gottlieb <start_source>mail</start_source> an offer to shareholders by <start_target>Nov. 22</start_target>, it will reimburse them a maximum of C$8.5 million for expenses related to a bid.

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``We shall prove that new members can indeed add to the weight of the alliance,'' he <end_source>said</end_source>. The location for Friday's ceremony was chosen by Albright, who as secretary of state is the depository of NATO's accession accords. The secretary made the fairly unorthodox decision to choose a site outside Washington because she wanted the ceremony to resonate with the memories of President Truman, under whom NATO was founded. On April 4, 1949, on behalf of the United States, Truman's secretary of state, Dean Acheson, signed the Washington Treaty, which created NATO. Acheson is Albright's favorite predecessor, her aides said. Formed in reaction to the threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin, NATO calls for the collective defense of its members and was brought into being with an original 12 members. The alliance has expanded three times before, adding Greece and Turkey in 1952, West Germany in 1955 and Spain in 1982. But never before has NATO reached out to its former Eastern-bloc enemies. The Clinton administration embarked on the expansion of NATO in 1993 after Clinton met in Washington with President Havel and Lech Walesa, who was then the president of Poland. These conversations are <start_target>remembered</start_target> by Clinton's foreign policy team because they took place after the opening of the Holocaust Museum and because they involved two very different Central European leaders who brought the same message.

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Documents creation time: <start_target>11/02/89</start_target> The McAlpine family, which <start_source>operates</start_source> a number of multinational companies, including a London-based engineering and construction company, also lent to Meridian National $500,000.

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"Mr. Lortie felt less pertinent," Mr. Nadeau said, given the <start_source>decision</start_source> to dump Provigo's non-food operations. "At this stage it was felt I was perhaps more pertinent as chief executive." Mr. Nadeau also is chairman and chief executive of Unigesco Inc., Provigo's controlling shareholder. At a news conference, Mr. Nadeau said the sale of the three non-food businesses, which account for nearly half the company's C$900 million in assets, should be completed in a "matter of months." The three units are a nationwide pharmaceutical and health-products distributor, a small sporting-goods chain, and a combination catalog showroom and toy-store chain. Investors and analysts applauded the news. Provigo was the most active industrial stock on the Montreal Exchange, where it closed at C$9.75 (US$8.32), up 75 Canadian cents. "I think it's a pretty positive development," said Ross Cowan, a financial analyst with Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc., of the <start_target>decision</start_target> to concentrate on groceries.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Preliminary DNA tests link a missing anti-abortion activist to a strand of hair <end_source>found</end_source> near where a sniper shot and killed a Buffalo, N.Y., doctor who performed abortions, a law enforcement official said Friday. The first round of DNA tests on the hair at the FBI Laboratory here established a high probability it came from the same person as a hair found in a New Jersey home where James C. Kopp, a 44-year-old anti-abortion protester, lived last year, the official said. The first DNA tests did not exclude a match between the two strands. Kopp has eluded authorities since they obtained a warrant for him as a material witness in the Oct. 23 sniper shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a 52-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions. The search for Kopp was recently extended to Mexico. Meantime, FBI agents and Metropolitan Police officers assigned to a joint terrorism task force here scanned the crowd of anti-abortion protesters at the annual March for Life on Capitol Hill, because Kopp has been either a participant in or arrested at this march in each of the last three years, according to another law enforcement official, Both officials requested anonymity. The FBI is conducting further DNA tests of the hair found outside Dr. Slepian's home. This more extensive set of tests could enable officials to declare an absolute match between the two hair strands, the first law enforcement official said. ``Ultimately, we would need to have a hair taken directly from Kopp himself to establish conclusively the hair from scene is his,'' the official added. The official said the hair was in a cap that authorities found very near the location from which the sniper is thought to have fired the rifle bullet that killed Slepian as he stood in the kitchen of his home in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, N.Y. But The Buffalo News reported Friday that the hair was in a packet, with at least two bullets, that was found buried in the ground more than 50 feet from a tree where police believe the sniper stood and fired. Last week, FBI Director Louis Freeh, on an official visit to Mexico, asked Mexican authorities to join the hunt for Kopp, federal officials have <start_target>said</start_target>.

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The team planned to <start_source>leave</start_source> Nairobi on Thursday for Dar es Salaam. Besides meeting the immediate physical and emotional needs of bombing victims, the United States will consider helping set up a disaster response center in Kenya, Satcher said. In addition to providing assistance using resources of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Satcher said he will report to Congress on additional needs. U.S. President Bill Clinton has requested dlrs 50 million in emergency assistance funding from Congress for Tanzania and Kenya. The U.S. government already has contributed dlrs 3.2 million in assistance to the two countries. On <end_target>Friday</end_target>, the Kenyan government planned to pay the first 32 death claims of 100,000 Kenyan shillings (dlrs 1,667) each.

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Elian's Miami relatives <start_source>took</start_source> in the child, but then refused to return him to his surviving father in Cuba, <start_target>citing</start_target> the harshness of the Castro regime.

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But, Isay <start_source>added</start_source>, ``it heightens the abortion issue.'' Steven Goldstein, the campaign spokesman for Spitzer, was less reticent. ``Eliot is going to make a huge priority of this,'' Goldstein said. ``<end_target>Stopping</end_target> clinic violence is going to be a major theme of our campaign from now to Election Day.''

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The Internet, the global network of computers, is now far <start_source>reaching</start_source> into the country - extending its embrace to include every nook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse range of information sources but also an exhaustive list of possibilities to create new applications which add value to people's lives. In the business world, the Internet - through intranet and extranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to harness so as to gain a competitive edge. The solutions are also vital components in developing the borderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element for spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. The application will create the necessary framework and infrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce) initiatives in the country. However, it is important to note that installing or implementing Internet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure instant success. For e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business transactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business and technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an organisation to see feasible returns on investment. Intranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and transform new channels of business. When strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support functions in organisations. It will also help further improve communications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation. With intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to respectively link the network to other companies' for extended business purposes through extranets. While this will enable the sharing of information among enterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as well as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that enterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a need to address them. Other than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to families over telecommunications lines. The art of socialising is also experiencing a change where Net/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel with the normal human relationships. Whether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society in the future is yet to be <start_target>seen</start_target>.

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Sinn Fein chairman Mitchell McLaughlin says the party will <start_source>challenge</start_source> the move by legal means if they have to. We're going to fight it. And uh we've already challenged, very strongly, the uh the terms in which this has been presented. But we're <end_target>challenging</end_target> it on the ground that uh the RUC uh have offered an opinion, and this opinion is going to be used as a mechanism for ejecting us from the talks, and uh that's a very serious.

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Saying ``nothing is certain'' about Elian's <start_target>return</start_target>, Cuba's government exhorted citizens to keep rallying, after the boy's relatives in Miami said they would look for ways to get around Wednesday's ruling by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to repatriate the child by Jan. 14. Cuban exiles in Miami will now ``proceed with all their resources to impede or delay'' the ruling, Cuba <end_source>predicted</end_source> Wednesday.

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``If in fact, Elian's father is permitted by the dictatorship of Fidel Castro to come to the United States, then, as a Cuban American, I welcome him and urge him to make all his decisions based on the well being and best interest of his son, and not that of the Cuban government,'' Estefan <end_source>said</end_source>. All week, elected officials in Washington, D.C., and at the state capital in Tallahassee have issued statement of support for Elian's Miami relatives, even Vice President Al Gore, breaking from his own administration's stand. In Miami-Dade County, elected officials went as far as to say they their police departments would have no role in taking the boy from the house. Among non-Cuban Americans, there was a drastic shift in their feelings on the case. ``Send him back,'' said Marsha Raeber, 47, an airline employee. ``There are rules and regulations in this country. Some people are born rich, some people are born poor. That's the luck of the draw. Who's to say that he's better off at Disney World and eating fast food here instead if breathing the fresh air of Cuba.'' Eric Pichardo, 44, is from Nicaragua, and said the Cuban-Americans ``need to follow the law. What about all the other poor kids in South and Central America?'' Not all Cuban-Americans insist that Elian be allowed to stay. Diana de Cardenas, 33, was born in Cuba in <end_target>1984</end_target>.

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Gonzalez has <end_source>demanded</end_source> his rights as the child's sole surviving parent and <end_target>wants</end_target> Elian returned to him.

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"Extending membership to these three democracies helps to stabilize a region that historically has been the staging ground for many of the <start_source>disasters</start_source> of <end_target>this century,</end_target>" Solana added, referring to the two world wars.

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The <start_source>effort</start_source> is being led by Contel. Personal spending rose 0.2% in September, the smallest gain in a year. The slowdown raises questions about the economy's strength because spending fueled much of the third-quarter GNP growth. Meanwhile, personal income edged up 0.3%. Factory owners are buying new machinery at a healthy rate this fall, machine-tool makers <start_target>say</start_target>.

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The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service said earlier this week that once Gonzalez arrives in the United States it will begin the process to transfer Elian to his custody from the Miami relatives who have been caring for him since he was <end_source>rescued</end_source> off the coast of Florida in late November. The Miami kin has been battling to keep him in the United States, saying it can give him a better life off the communist island. But Gonzalez, backed by Castro, has demanded his rights as Elian's sole surviving parent and insisted that the child be returned to him. Elian's mother perished along with 10 others when their boat sank during the crossing from Cuba to the United States. Since the tragedy, Elian has become a political poster boy for Cubans with diametrically opposed ideologies living on both sides of the Florida Straits. During his speech Wednesday night, Castro expressed irritation that much of the rest of the delegation was not granted visas to <start_target>travel</start_target> to the United States to stay with Elian while waiting out a federal appeal filed by Elian's Miami relatives and assist in his ''rehabilitation.''

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In a <end_source>ceremony</end_source> tinged with the personal and the emotional at the Truman Presidential Library here, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright watched the foreign ministers of the three countries sign the documents of accession to the alliance, signed them herself and then held them aloft like a victory trophy. Albright, who was born in Prague and fled just after the Communist takeover in 1948, made no secret of her joy at her homeland and its neighbors joining the alliance after a six year trans-Atlantic diplomatic process led by the Clinton administration. ``To quote an old Central European expression, `Hallelujah,''' she said. In Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the moment was marked by small-scale public celebrations. In Warsaw, Poland, after dark, as fireworks lit the sky, the Polish flag and the flag of NATO were raised side by side near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Pilsudski Square In Hungary, NATO members' flags were raised outside the Defense Ministry. And in Prague, Czech Republic, President Vaclav Havel said in a statement, ``Never have we been part of such a broad, solid and binding security alliance which at the same time respects in its essence the sovereignty and will of our nation.'' The enlargement of NATO from 16 members to 19 has been one of the administration's foremost foreign policy goals, one that grew out of a desire, its proponents said, to cement the democratic gains made in the former Warsaw Pact countries after the collapse of communism 10 years ago. But the policy also faced critics, who argued that welcoming these three new countries would draw a new line across Europe and antagonize the Russians. As of Friday, the border between Western Europe and the former Soviet Union moved to the eastern border of Poland. In her speech, in the small auditorium where dignitaries from the three countries sat and the three foreign ministers flanked her on the stage, Albright countered that NATO would now do ``for Europe's East what NATO has already helped to do for Europe's West. Steadily and systematically, we will continue erasing _ without replacing _ the line drawn in Europe by Stalin's bloody boot.'' Albright also used her speech to articulate a forward-looking vision for NATO, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Washington next month, and to defend NATO's potential involvement in Kosovo. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.'' In Kosovo, where the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is resisting the deployment of NATO-led troops, including 4,000 U.S. soldiers, Albright insisted that NATO was the best tool to <end_target>enforce</end_target> a peace settlement.

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and for the hopes and dreams of Elian's mother Elizabeth,'' who died with nine other adults when their boat <end_source>sank</end_source> as they attempted to reach Florida, said Roger Bernstein, representing the Miami Gonzalez family. ``Nobody wants the boy to be separated from his father,'' said Ninoska Perez of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation. ``But that little boy, by surviving two days on an inner tube, has earned the right to stay here in freedom.'' In Havana, the government gave a guarded first response to the INS ruling, warning against ``excessive optimism'' and predicting ``the Cuban-American mafia and the extreme right in the U.S. Congress'' would still put up a fight to keep the boy. Meissner said the INS decision was made after two lengthy interviews with the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a hotel worker in Cardenas, Cuba, who Meissner said is anxious to have Elian returned to him. Since the boy is so young, Meissner said, the natural father has the right to speak for Elian. There is ``no information'' that Gonzalez, who was divorced from Elian's mother, is an unfit father, nor that he has been coerced by the Castro regime into pleading for his son's return, Meissner said. Spencer Eig, an attorney for the Gonzalez family in Miami, said Meissner's assumptions were ``unconstitutional and untrue.'' ``Elian cannot apply for asylum from persecution by the Fidel Castro government,'' Eig complained. ``If only his father, who is under the control of the Fidel Castro regime, can do it for him . . . that is deeply unfair and untrue.'' Meissner gave no reason for the Jan. 14 deadline, and it is still unclear how Elian would be transported back to Cuba if the Gonzalez family's appeals are unsuccessful. The INS offered three options: that Gonzalez come to pick up his son, that the family in Miami take him to Cuba, or that a ``third party'' escort the child to his homeland. Gonzalez _ perhaps under duress from the Castro regime _ has indicated he does not want to travel to Miami, and there is ``no way'' the Miami Gonzalezes will assist in sending Elian back to Cuba, Perez said. Having a third party escort Elian <end_target>frees</end_target> the INS from the politically uncomfortable spectacle of having to do the task itself.

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He <start_source>said</start_source> the strength of the world-wide economy is suspect, and doesn't see much revenue growth in the cards. He also said that the price wars flaring up in parts of the computer industry will continue through next year. He <start_target>said</start_target> the move toward standard operating systems means customers aren't locked into buying from their traditional computer supplier and can force prices down.

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And in the tight race for U.S. Senate, while the Democrat, Charles Schumer, another abortion-rights supporter, has not raised Slepian's death himself, his aides say it <start_source>puts</start_source> a new emphasis on the issue. Slepian was shot in the back on Friday night as he stood in his kitchen. No suspects have been identified. Even before the killing, Schumer was tyring to draw more attention to the anti-abortion record of his opponent, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Republican who is also running on the Right to Life Party line. In a New York Times/CBS News poll completed on Saturday, 69 percent of those polled said they did not know D'Amato's position on abortion, and only 19 percent knew that he opposed abortion rights. Now events are doing the work for Schumer. Slepian's death was among the first topics raised in Saturday night's debate between the two men, and it was instantly followed by a question to D'Amato on whether he opposed first-trimester abortions for adult women. On Tuesday, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League plans to hold a news conference to screen a television advertisement _ made last week, before Slepian died _ featuring Emily Lyons, a nurse who was badly wounded earlier this year in the bombing of an abortion clinic in Alabama. The advertisement, said Kelli Conlin, the executive director of the New York State affiliate of Naral, is intended to spotlight D'Amato's vote against the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which Schumer sponsored. The measure made it a Federal crime to attack or blockade an abortion clinic. Now, Ms. Conlin said, it will have new resonance, and the organization is considering buying more air time. ``It's incredibly sincere and powerful and it would have been regardless,'' she said. ``But sensitivities are so heightened from the shooting in western New York that it's even more powerful.'' David Eichenbaum, a Democratic political consultant who is not working for anyone in this year's campaign, said abortion ``is no longer the driving issue it once was, at least on the pro-choice side.'' But, Eichenbaum said: ``Sometimes an incident like this will do more to energize those who are pro-choice who otherwise might not consider that as an important an issue to go to the polls over. It brings it home.'' D'Amato's aides would not comment about the political ramifications of the slaying, and Schumer's aides would not talk about whether they planned to refer to it in any advertisements, or whether the candidate planned to use it on the campaign trail. ``Both Senator D'Amato and Chuck Schumer agree this was a horrific crime and a horrible tragedy,'' said Josh Isay, Schumer's campaign manager. But, Isay added, ``it heightens the abortion issue.'' Steven Goldstein, the campaign spokesman for Spitzer, was less reticent. ``Eliot is going to make a huge priority of this,'' Goldstein <end_target>said</end_target>.

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Attorney Kendall Coffey <end_source>said</end_source> his clients were giving an appeal to the Supreme Court ``serious consideration.'' The Miami relatives could also request a rehearing before the same three-judge panel that issued Thursday's ruling, or before the entire 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal. But Thursday's decision made it clear the family has only 14 days to decide whether to request a rehearing at that level. &UR; &LR; ``Expect no extensions,'' the court instructed. The ruling follows six months of international family infighting, political recriminations and wide-spread protests in both Miami and Cuba over the fate of the 6-year-old boy. His mother died trying to smuggle Elian out of Cuba, and it has been difficult for family members, Miami community leaders and many politicians to separate attitudes about Cuban leader Fidel Castro from the legal issues involved. The appellate ruling made it clear the court takes no joy in lifting an obstacle to Elian's return to Cuba. ``We acknowledge, as a widely accepted truth, that Cuba does violate human rights and fundamental freedoms and does not guarantee the rule of law to people living in Cuba,'' wrote Judge J.L. Edmonson, on behalf of the panel. But the Immigration and Naturalization Service's decision to deny Elian an asylum hearing was ``within the outside border of reasonable choices,'' the opinion read. ``The court neither approves nor disapproves the INS' decision to reject the asylum applications filed on plaintiff's behalf, but the INS decision did not contradict (federal law.)'' The judges denied, however, a request by Elian's father to name him instead of great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez as Elian's representative in the continued court proceedings. Making Juan Miguel Gonzalez his son's legal representative would have allowed him to simply drop the asylum request and head for home. Elian's great-uncle vowed to continue the battle, and said the Miami relatives might sue for visitation while the child is in the United States. ``We will keep fighting with the laws ... so Elian Gonzalez can live in a free country like his mother wanted,'' Lazaro Gonzalez said. President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno praised the ruling, with both stressing their confidence that Juan Miguel Gonzalez is the best person to raise his child. &UR; &LR; ``As I've said before, this is a case about the importance of family and the bond between a father and son,'' Clinton said in a written statement issued from Berlin. Elian's father asked his Miami relatives to end their court battle after <start_target>Thursday</start_target>'s ruling and allow him to finally return home with his son.

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Kopp remains at-large and police admit that despite a worldwide search and a $1 million reward, they don't <start_source>know</start_source> where he is. ``It's very frustrating knowing that he's out there,'' said Ms. Buckham. ``It's very scary.'' Sunday's yahrtzeit service ---- a Jewish ceremony that commemorates the dead with the lighting of a 24-hour candle ---- included the lighting of candles for the seven people killed and 12 people injured in abortion-related violence since 1993. A tearful audience also listened to registered nurse Emily Lyons, who has undergone a number of operations since the Alabama clinic bombing and has permanently damaged eyesight. She <start_target>spoke</start_target> of Slepian and other abortion providers who have been killed.

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While some Latin American countries such as Mexico and Colombia have <end_source>suffered</end_source> from a rash of <end_target>kidnappings</end_target> in recent years, the crime has not been common in this U.S. commonwealth.

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But the policy also faced critics, who argued that welcoming these three new countries would draw a new line across Europe and <end_target>antagonize</end_target> the Russians. As of Friday, the border between Western Europe and the former Soviet Union moved to the eastern border of Poland. In her speech, in the small auditorium where dignitaries from the three countries sat and the three foreign ministers flanked her on the stage, Albright countered that NATO would now do ``for Europe's East what NATO has already helped to do for Europe's West. Steadily and systematically, we will continue erasing _ without replacing _ the line drawn in Europe by Stalin's bloody boot.'' Albright also used her speech to articulate a forward-looking vision for NATO, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Washington next month, and to defend NATO's potential involvement in Kosovo. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.'' In Kosovo, where the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is resisting the deployment of NATO-led troops, including 4,000 U.S. soldiers, Albright insisted that NATO was the best tool to enforce a peace settlement. ``We must be clear in explaining that a settlement without NATO-led enforcement is not acceptable because only NATO has the credibility and capability to make it work,'' she said. ``And we must be resolute in spelling out the consequences of intransigence,'' she added, referring to the threat of NATO air strikes against Milosevic if he does not agree to the deployment. But in many ways, the day belonged to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, who in order to meet NATO's standards have had to cut the size of their Soviet-style militaries, organize civilian control of their armies and agree to buy NATO compatible equipment in the coming years. It was the spiritual <end_source>homecoming</end_source> to the West that all three foreign ministers stressed.

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And in Prague, Czech Republic, President Vaclav Havel said in a statement, ``Never have we been part of such a broad, solid and binding security alliance which at the same time <end_target>respects</end_target> in its essence the sovereignty and will of our nation.'' The enlargement of NATO from 16 members to 19 has been one of the administration's foremost foreign policy goals, one that grew out of a desire, its proponents said, to cement the democratic gains made in the former Warsaw Pact countries after the collapse of communism 10 years ago. But the policy also faced critics, who argued that welcoming these three new countries would draw a new line across Europe and antagonize the Russians. As of Friday, the border between Western Europe and the former Soviet Union moved to the eastern border of Poland. In her speech, in the small auditorium where dignitaries from the three countries sat and the three foreign ministers flanked her on the stage, Albright countered that NATO would now do ``for Europe's East what NATO has already helped to do for Europe's West. Steadily and systematically, we will continue erasing _ without replacing _ the line drawn in Europe by Stalin's bloody boot.'' Albright also used her speech to articulate a forward-looking vision for NATO, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Washington next month, and to defend NATO's potential involvement in Kosovo. In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be ready to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.'' In Kosovo, where the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is resisting the deployment of NATO-led troops, including 4,000 U.S. soldiers, Albright insisted that NATO was the best tool to enforce a peace settlement. ``We must be clear in explaining that a settlement without NATO-led enforcement is not acceptable because only NATO has the credibility and capability to make it work,'' she said. ``And we must be resolute in spelling out the consequences of intransigence,'' she added, referring to the threat of NATO air strikes against Milosevic if he does not agree to the deployment. But in many ways, the day belonged to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, who in order to meet NATO's standards have had to cut the size of their Soviet-style militaries, organize civilian control of their armies and agree to buy NATO compatible equipment in the coming years. It was the spiritual homecoming to the West that all three foreign ministers stressed. ``Poland forever <start_source>returns</start_source> where she has always belonged _ the free world,'' said Bronislaw Geremek, the foreign minister of Poland, who was a dissident during the Communist era.

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, she said, NATO must be <start_source>ready</start_source> to face ``an aggressive regime, a rampaging faction, or a terrorist group. And we know that if, past is prologue, we face a future in which weapons will be more destructive at longer distances than ever before.'' The NATO summit, she said, would produce an initiative that ``responds to the grave threat posed by weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.'' In Kosovo, where the Yugoslav leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is resisting the deployment of NATO-led troops, including 4,000 U.S. soldiers, Albright insisted that NATO was the best tool to enforce a peace settlement. ``We must be clear in explaining that a settlement without NATO-led enforcement is not acceptable because only NATO has the credibility and capability to make it work,'' she said. ``And we must be resolute in spelling out the consequences of intransigence,'' she <end_target>added</end_target>, referring to the threat of NATO air strikes against Milosevic if he does not agree to the deployment.

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As pressure built in this city, the home of a large number of Cuban exiles, officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said they did not <start_source>plan</start_source> to remove Elian on Thursday morning even if his Miami relatives continued to defy them. But an INS spokeswoman said the agency would revoke Elian's permission to stay in the United States, <end_target>clearing</end_target> the way for his return to Cuba.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>2000-03-29</end_target> Asked to comment on Castro's announcement, a Justice Department spokesman said: ``Certainly it <end_source>changes</end_source> things.

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Last week alone, an eye-popping $1.6 billion <start_source>flowed</start_source> out of the junk funds, or nearly 5% of their total assets, <start_target>according</start_target> to estimates by Dalbar Financial Services Inc., a Boston research firm.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Preliminary DNA tests <start_source>link</start_source> a missing anti-abortion activist to a strand of hair found near where a sniper shot and killed a Buffalo, N.Y., doctor who performed abortions, a law enforcement official said Friday. The first round of DNA tests on the hair at the FBI Laboratory here established a high probability it came from the same person as a hair found in a New Jersey home where James C. Kopp, a 44-year-old anti-abortion protester, lived last year, the official said. The first DNA tests did not exclude a match between the two strands. Kopp has eluded authorities since they obtained a warrant for him as a material witness in the Oct. 23 sniper shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a 52-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions. The search for Kopp was recently extended to Mexico. Meantime, FBI agents and Metropolitan Police officers assigned to a joint terrorism task force here scanned the crowd of anti-abortion protesters at the annual March for Life on Capitol Hill, because Kopp has been either a participant in or arrested at this march in each of the last three years, according to another law enforcement official, Both officials requested anonymity. The FBI is conducting further DNA tests of the hair found outside Dr. Slepian's home. This more extensive set of tests could <end_target>enable</end_target> officials to declare an absolute match between the two hair strands, the first law enforcement official said.

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Volume was 840.8 million shares, up from 443.6 million <start_target>Thursday</start_target> and the week's most active session. Dealers said the turnover, largely confined to the 100-share index stocks, partly reflected the flurry of activity typical at the close of a two-week trading account and the start of a new account. But they said Friday's focus on the top-tier stocks telegraphed active overseas selling and showed the broad-based fears over the status of the U.K. economy and Britain's currency in the wake of the upheaval in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet. A senior dealer with Warburg Securities noted British Gas, the most active blue-chip stock at 20 million shares traded, was affected by the political implications of Mr. Lawson's departure and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet shuffle. He attributed the unusually high volume to broad-based selling on fears that the Thatcher government may be in turmoil and Britain's Labor Party positioned to regain control of the government and renew efforts at nationalization. British Gas shed 8.5 pence a share to close at 185 pence ($2.90). Other dealers added that the blue-chip stocks in general were hit by profit-taking over concerns that London shares will continue posting declines and the uncertainty over sterling given that Mr. Lawson's successor, John Major, had only been in the job one day. Besides British Gas, British Steel skidded 1.74 to 123.5 on turnover of 11 million shares. British Petroleum fell 5 to 286 on 14 million shares traded. Dealers said the multinational oil company was pressured by recent brokerage recommendations urging investors to switch into Shell Trading amp Transport. Shell eased 1 to 416 on turnover of 4.8 million shares. Among the other actively traded blue-chip issues, Imperial Chemical Industries dropped 11 to #10.86, Hanson skidded 9.5 to 200.5, and British Telecom fell 10 to 250. In Tokyo, stocks closed lower but above intraday lows in active trading. The Nikkei index was pressured down by profit-taking triggered by sharp advances made through this week and fell 151.20 points to 35527.29. In early trading in Tokyo Monday, the Nikkei index fell 148.85 points to 35378.44. On Friday, the Tokyo stock price index of first section issues was down 15.82 at 2681.76. First-section volume was estimated at 1.3 billion shares, up from 886 million shares Thursday. An official at Wako Securities <end_source>said</end_source> brokerages' excessive expectations about recent advances in Tokyu Group shares and real estate issues were dashed Friday.

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In January, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner ruled that Elian should go back to Cuba, a decision <start_target>upheld</start_target> by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. The Miami relatives filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the decision, but in March a Miami federal judge ruled against them. They immediately appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Legal experts and federal officials maintain that Reno can allow the boy to be sent back to Cuba before the appeal is heard. Last week, federal officials sought to have the family must sign an agreement to turn the boy over voluntarily should they lose their appeal. If the family refused, INS had threatened to revoke Elian's parole, meaning federal officials would take him from the Miami family. The family refused to sign the agreement through two days of negotiations, and INS extended its deadline until 9 a.m. EST Tuesday. The terms of the talks changed dramatically, however, when Castro announced last Wednesday that the boy's father was ready to travel to the United States. Previously, Gonzalez had said he would never come here to get his son. Over the weekend, lawyers for the family raised accusations that Juan Miguel Gonzalez had mistreated his son in telephone conversations, saying he had told the boy that his mother was alive and waiting for him in Cuba. But by Monday, federal officials hardened their negotiating stance, insisting the boy would be turned over to his father once the Cuban group arrives in the United States. Moves to keep Elian in this country through federal legislation appear to be stymied, as most lawmakers seem to agree the boy should go back to Cuba. A new ABC News-Washington Post opinion poll shows that 6 of 10 Americans also believe the boy should go home with his father. But in Miami, Cuban exiles insist the majority of Americans don't understand the dynamics of life in Cuba. Just how far they are willing to go to prove their point remains to be <start_source>seen</start_source>.

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Documents creation time: <end_target>2000-06-01</end_target> The ruling follows six months of international family infighting, political recriminations and wide-spread <start_source>protests</start_source> in both Miami and Cuba over the fate of the 6-year-old boy.

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JOHANNESBURG, August 7 (Xinhua) -- South Africa deplored Friday the bomb <start_source>blasts</start_source> which killed scores of people and injured more than 1,000 others outside embassies of the United States in Kenya and Tanzania earlier in the day. A statement by the Foreign Affairs Department described the attacks as senseless. "The South African government deplores these senseless <end_target>acts</end_target> against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and would like to express its condolences to the victims of the explosions," the statement said.

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Meantime, the possibility of a meeting between Attorney General Janet Reno and Lazaro Gonzalez's family <start_source>reemerged</start_source> <end_target>Thursday</end_target>.

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O'SMACH, Cambodia (AP)_ The top commander of a Cambodian resistance force said Thursday he has sent a team to recover the remains of a British mine removal expert <start_source>kidnapped</start_source> and presumed killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas almost two years ago. Gen. Nhek Bunchhay, a loyalist of ousted Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said in an interview with The Associated Press at his hilltop headquarters that he hopes to recover the remains of Christopher Howes within the next two weeks. Howes had been working for the Britain-based Mines Advisory Group when he was abducted with his Cambodian interpreter Houn Hourth in March 1996. There were many conflicting accounts of his fate. Howes' team was clearing mines 17 kilometers (10 miles) from Angkor Wat, the fabled 11th century temple that is Cambodia's main tourist attraction, when it was attacked. In January this year, British police officers who had been searching for Howes concluded he had probably been killed soon after being captured. The Foreign Office said it had informed the family of Howes, 37 years old when he was kidnapped, that he probably died within weeks or months of his capture on March 26, 1996. ``Obviously, it is deeply discouraging for the family after 22 months, but there is no proof of life. But there is no evidence in either direction _ that there is proof of life or death,'' said a Foreign Office spokesman, speaking with customary anonymity. ``We will continue to do everything we can to establish what has happened.'' Thai military officials who monitor Cambodian affairs said privately Thursday that Britain, through its embassies in Thailand and Cambodia, has been pushing hard to resolve the Howes case as the second anniversary of his abduction nears. Nhek Bunchhay, who had been closely involved in the search for Howes before having to flee the Cambodian capital after a coup d'etat last year, appeared confident he would find Howes' remains. He said he received information from Khmer Rouge guerrillas on where the body had been buried, and recently ordered 10 of his men from a force of 500 near Khmer Rouge headquarters in Anlong Veng to conduct the search. If and when the remains are found, he said, they would be turned over to the British Embassy, apparently meaning they would be sent across the border into Thailand and onward to Bangkok. Nhek Bunchhay said he now believed Howes had been killed within a week of his capture by a Khmer Rouge faction loyal to Pol Pot, then the guerrilla group's leader. Pol Pot is considered responsible for the radical policies that led to the deaths of as many as 1.7 million Cambodians when the communist group held power in the late 1970s. At the time Howes was <start_target>captured</start_target>, the Khmer Rouge were a more or less united guerrilla force with more than 10,000 men under arms.

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London share prices <end_source>closed</end_source> sharply lower <end_target>Friday</end_target> in active trading after Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's resignation slapped the market and Wall Street's rapid initial sell-off knocked it down.

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Secretary of State James Baker, <end_source>speaking</end_source> on ABC News' "This Week," said the Kuwaiti request gives the U.S. and other countries "a legal basis for stopping the export of oil and that sort of thing." The U.S. maintains that under the U.N. charter, the Kuwaiti request triggers steps for the collective enforcement of international sanctions. Mr. Baker <start_target>declined</start_target> to use the word blockade, but said that "interdiction" of Iraqi shipments would begin " almost instantly."

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It was the spiritual homecoming to the West that all three foreign ministers <end_source>stressed</end_source>. ``Poland forever returns where she has always belonged _ the free world,'' said Bronislaw Geremek, the foreign minister of Poland, who was a dissident during the Communist era. Geremek said he had brought some appropriate mementoes from Poland to the Truman library, including a campaign poster from 1989 when the anti-communist Solidarity forces won against the Communists. The poster showed a picture of Gary Cooper from the film ``High Noon.'' ``It helped us to win,'' Geremek said. ``For the people of Poland, high noon comes today.'' The Czech foreign minister, Jan Kavan, who lived in London from 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, until 1989, said he had remained buoyant during his opposition work as an emigre by believing that communism would eventually fall. But he never dreamed, he said, that his country would become a member of NATO. ``Accession to NATO is a guarantee that we will never again become powerless victims of any foreign aggression,'' Kavan said. Similarly, the Hungarian foreign minister, Janos Martonyi, who remembers the 1956 uprising as a 13-year-old, said that membership of NATO meant that Hungary was returning ``to her natural habitat.'' ``It has been our manifest destiny to rejoin those with whom we share the same values, interests and goals,'' he said. But Martonyi also emphasized that Hungary understood NATO membership carried with it obligations as well as privileges. ``We shall prove that new members can indeed <end_target>add</end_target> to the weight of the alliance,'' he said.

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Such a decision would allow the U.S. government to push for the 6-year-old boy's swift reunion in Washington with his <start_source>waiting</start_source> father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who wants to return to Cuba. He has said he will wait out appeals by the Miami relatives seeking an asylum hearing for Elian before the same court -- but only if he has custody of his son. There was growing apprehension outside the Little Havana home where the boy has lived with his great-uncle for nearly five months. ''The feeling is the Clinton administration might send federal agents to pull him out of here,'' said Sergio Navarro, a 39-year-old Miami businessman who spent part of Sunday night with chanting protesters. Elian's relatives have cared for him since November, when he was found clinging to an inner tube in the Florida Straits. His mother and 10 other people fleeing Cuba drowned when their boat sank. The Clinton administration has pushed for the boy's return to his father, ruling only he can speak for his son on immigration matters. The boy's Miami relatives say he will have a better life here and have attempted to portray Juan Miguel Gonzalez as a pawn of Fidel Castro. The Justice Department wants the appeals court to suspend the temporary injunction issued Thursday and also order Elian's great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, to release the boy. The relatives want the court to let them meet with Elian's father without being required to surrender the boy. The court watch comes after one of the most bitter charges yet in the custody battle. Juan Miguel Gonzalez lashed out at his Miami relatives Sunday night, accusing them of ''child abuse'' for turning his son against him. He said they have manipulated his son to believe that his mother still may show up someday -- in this country. ''This is child abuse and mistreatment, what they're doing to this boy,'' Gonzalez said on CBS's ''60 Minutes.'' ''The way they're abusing him, turning him against his father ... he's suffering more here amongst them than he suffered in the sea.'' Gonzalez said he didn't believe a much-publicized video taped at the relatives' home in which his son said he didn't want to go. He has spoken with Elian at least three times since he arrived in the United States on April 6, and he insisted his son wants to return to Cuba. ''He's told me so,'' Gonzalez said. The Miami relatives are ``putting a bunch of toys in front of a 6-year-old. He cannot decide for himself. The one that decides for him is me, his father.'' Elian's Miami relatives have filed affidavits alleging Gonzalez abused his former wife and his 6-year-old son, a charge Gonzalez denied. During the time of the broadcast on Sunday, family members and Elian were outside the home of Lazaro Gonzalez and did not publicly comment after the <start_target>show</start_target>.

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Elian has been the focus of an international custody battle since he was found on an inner tube off the Florida coast on <end_target>Nov. 25</end_target>. The boy's mother and 10 other people died when their boat sank on the way from Cuba to the UnitedStates. Elian is staying with his paternal great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who is fighting to keep the boy with him in the United States. Cuban exiles in Miami say the boy's mother died to give him freedom in the United States, while theCuban government maintains Elian is being improperly kept from his father. ``Juan Miguel must not have written the letter himself,'' said Armando Gutierrez, spokesman for Elian's relatives in Miami. ``Castro must be dreaming for the family to allow Cuban spies inside Lazaro Gonzalez's home.'' Lawyers for the relatives in Miami filed a brief in federal court on Monday arguing the Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot return Elian to Cuba without holding a political asylum hearing. U.S. government lawyers have <end_source>moved</end_source> to dismiss the Miami relatives' lawsuit,arguing that they have no legal standing in the boy's case.

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They believe Kopp was driven to Mexico by a female friend after the shooting, and have a trail of her credit card receipts <end_source>leading</end_source> to Mexico, the federal officials have said. In addition, a Customs Service videotape from a border crossing point shows the woman's car returning from Mexico, these officials said. Authorities obtained a material-witness arrest warrant for Kopp after they said Kopp's car was spotted in Amherst in the weeks before Slepian was killed. Kopp's 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier was discovered last month at Newark, N.J., International Airport, the FBI <start_target>said</start_target>.

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The first round of DNA tests on the hair at the FBI Laboratory here established a high probability it came from the same person as a hair <end_target>found</end_target> in a New Jersey home where James C. Kopp, a 44-year-old anti-abortion protester, lived last year, the official said. The first DNA tests did not exclude a match between the two strands. Kopp has eluded authorities since they obtained a warrant for him as a material witness in the Oct. 23 sniper shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a 52-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist who performed abortions. The search for Kopp was recently extended to Mexico. Meantime, FBI agents and Metropolitan Police officers assigned to a joint terrorism task force here <end_source>scanned</end_source> the crowd of anti-abortion protesters at the annual March for Life on Capitol Hill, because Kopp has been either a participant in or arrested at this march in each of the last three years, according to another law enforcement official, Both officials requested anonymity.

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As pressure built in this city, the home of a large number of Cuban exiles, officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said they did not <end_source>plan</end_source> to remove Elian on Thursday morning even if his Miami relatives continued to defy them. But an INS spokeswoman said the agency would revoke Elian's permission to stay in the United States, clearing the way for his return to Cuba. In Havana, Cuban President Fidel Castro said that the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, would travel to the United States to bring his son home after the custody battle has been decided in the courts. Elian's father would be accompanied by other family members from Cuba, some of the boy's former classmates and teachers, and psychiatric experts, Castro said on Cuban television. ``We have the perfect formula for reinserting Elian,'' Castro said. He also said that the group would be willing to wait as long as it takes to bring the boy back. Asked to comment on Castro's announcement, a Justice Department spokesman said: ``Certainly it changes things. How it <start_target>changes</start_target> things is a little hard to say at this point.

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WASHINGTON _ Following are statements made <start_target>Friday</start_target> and Thursday by Lawrence Wechsler, a lawyer for the White House secretary, Betty Currie; the White House; White House spokesman Mike McCurry, and President Clinton in response to an article in The New York Times on Friday about her statements regarding a meeting with the president: Wechsler on Thursday ``Without commenting on the allegations raised in this article, to the extent that there is any implication or suggestion that Mrs. Currie was aware of any legal or ethical impropriety by anyone, that implication or suggestion is entirely inaccurate.'' White House on Thursday ``For the past few weeks we've been subjected to false leaks designed to mislead both reporters and the American public. We're not going to dignify the latest false leak with a response.'' McCurry on Friday ``I <start_source>want</start_source> to be absolutely clear, to the extent there is any implication or the slightest suggestion that Mrs. Currie believes that the President or anyone else tried to influence her recollection, that is absolutely false and a mischaracterization of the facts.

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In a ceremony tinged with the personal and the emotional at the Truman Presidential Library here, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright <end_target>watched</end_target> the foreign ministers of the three countries sign the documents of accession to the alliance, signed them herself and then held them aloft like a victory trophy. Albright, who was born in Prague and fled just after the Communist takeover in 1948, made no secret of her joy at her homeland and its neighbors joining the alliance after a six year trans-Atlantic diplomatic process led by the Clinton administration. ``To quote an old Central European expression, `Hallelujah,''' she said. In Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the moment was marked by small-scale public celebrations. In Warsaw, Poland, after dark, as fireworks lit the sky, the Polish flag and the flag of NATO were raised side by side near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Pilsudski Square In Hungary, NATO members' flags were raised outside the Defense Ministry. And in Prague, Czech Republic, President Vaclav Havel said in a statement, ``Never have we been part of such a broad, solid and binding security alliance which at the same time <start_source>respects</start_source> in its essence the sovereignty and will of our nation.''

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