Committees write budget after broad agreement. Disputes remain.

Agreement on $1.7 trillion budget; shutdown avoided; few crumbs to right.


President Boris Yeltsin has suffered minor burns on his right hand, his press office said Thursday.

Bandages on Boris Yeltsin's hand because of minor burns

Bandages seen on President Yeltsin's hand were said to be due to burns

President Boris Yeltsin has minor burns on right hand, cause unknown

Russian President Yeltsin burns hand; wore bandages to awards ceremony.


President Boris Yeltsin's doctors have pronounced his health ``more or less normal,'' his wife Naina said in an interview published Wednesday.

Doctors say Boris Yeltsin's health is "more or less normal"

Noting concerns about his health, Yeltsin's wife said he was normal

Drs. say Yeltsin health more or less normal. Heart attack, bypass in 1996.

Mrs Yeltsin says husband's health normal; heart disease; check-ups; rumors.


President Boris Yeltsin, on his first trip out of Russia since this spring, canceled a welcoming ceremony in Uzbekistan on Sunday because he wasn't feeling well, his spokesman said.

Yeltsin's canceling Uzbekistan ceremony raises concern about his health

Yeltsin shows signs of illness on first trip out of Russia since spring

Yeltsin health canceled 3 Uzbek ceremonies. Appears stiff and stumbled.

Yeltsin travels to SSRs; met with presidents; cancel ceremonies; has cold.


Doctors ordered Russian President Boris Yeltsin to cut short his Central Asian trip because of a respiratory infection and he agreed to return home Monday, a day earlier than planned, officials said.

Doctors order Yeltsin to curtail Asian trip and return home due to illness

Respiratory illness forces Yeltsin to return home from Central Asia

Yeltsin tracheobronchitis cuts Central Asian trip short. Antibiotics given.

Yeltsin shortens Central Asian trip; Dr's orders; fever; on antibiotics.


Russian President Boris Yeltsin cut short a trip to Central Asia on Monday due to a respiratory infection that revived questions about his overall health and ability to lead Russia through a sustained economic crisis.

Respiratory infection cuts short Yeltsin trip to Central Asia

Yeltsin's illnesses prompting concerns about his ability to lead Russia

Shortened trip revives questions about Yeltsin ability to lead Russia

Yeltsin's health causes shortened trip; doubts on fitness; will keep sked.


President Boris Yeltsin stayed home Tuesday, nursing a respiratory infection that forced him to cut short a foreign trip and revived concerns about his ability to govern.

Yeltsin's poor health raises question about his ability to govern

Yeltsin's health a major issue as leaders begin to call for his resignation

Yeltsin rambling, confused at state dinner. Mild fever. Needs bed rest.

Yeltsin in bed; called cold, but rumors rampant; some want xfer of powers.


Weakened by a cold yet animated, President Boris Yeltsin defied doctors' orders and quashed rumors he is seriously ill by showing up unexpectedly at the Kremlin on Wednesday.

Yeltsin defies doctors to go to Kremlin; but is politically weakened

Yeltsin denies he is seriously ill but government is gradually taking over

Yeltsin wan and tired, defies rest order. Resignation urged due to health.

Yeltsin defies MDs and goes to work; says okay; lost power, favor; pitied.


Russia's Constitutional Court opened hearings Thursday on whether Boris Yeltsin can seek a third term.

Russian court to decide if Yeltsin could seek a third term

Yeltsin not seeking another term but opposition wants early resignation

Yeltsin physically weaker, says he won't seek another term as president

Russian court study of 3d Yeltsin term OBE; he's lost power; ill; won't run


Russian court's 2-week look at Yeltsin term OBE; lost power; ill; won't run


Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who is still recuperating from his latest illness, has canceled a trip to an Asian summit next month, his office said Friday.

Yeltsin cancels Asian summit trip; still plans to attend European summit

Reports conflict over whether Yeltsin will attend two out-of-area summits

Yeltsin still recuperating, sends PM Primakov to Asian Summit in his place

Yeltsin cancels Asian trip; will go to Vienna; health rumors; able to work?


In the summer of 1995, a whiff of revolution was in the air in Silicon Valley.

Microsoft, Netscape, Internet, antitrust, AOL, Spyglass, Windows, Gates

Rivals seek to break Microsoft's monopoly on computer operating systems

Microsoft uses clout to create monopolies, squelch internet competition

Microsoft, Netscape, browser, America Online, Compaq, monopoly, Spyglass


A federal judge Friday pushed back the starting date of the antitrust trial against Microsoft Corp. by four days, to Oct. 19, while also ordering the company to comply with the Justice Department's request to examine Microsoft's financial records.

Start of Microsoft antitrust trail delayed by last minute new evidence

Microsoft faces Federal anti-trust trial and financial records examination

Microsoft ordered to let records be examined, seeks delay as case broadens

Apple and Sun Added to Microsoft Case; Trial Start Delayed 4 Days


Microsoft Corp. has said that material in an unpublished book by two business school professors will be a crucial part of its defense in the antitrust trial scheduled to begin next week.

Microsoft browser vs Netscape central to basis for antitrust suit

Unpublished book expected to be crucial to Microsoft anti-trust trial

Material in unpublished book evidence for both sides in Microsoft case

Cusumano, Yoffie Microsoft, browser, single integrated product, Netscape


The case of United States vs. Microsoft Corp., the government's most aggressive move against a monopolist in almost 25 years, is playing out against a century of antitrust laws so broadly worded and court rulings so ambiguous that both sides are citing the same rulings to support their opposing arguments.

The Microsoft antitrust suit is the most aggressive in a quarter century

U.S. vs Microsoft Corporation trial reveals ambiguity of anti-trust laws

Anti-trust laws broadly worded, court rulings ambiguous. Little guidance.

Windows, operating system, tying, Justice, browsers, software platform


U.S. vs Microsoft Corporation trial reveals ambiguity of anti-trust law


The legal tool that the government is using in its assault on Microsoft Corp. _ the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 _ is brief, vague and malleable.

Sherman Antitrust Act is basis for government case against Microsoft

Government's Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 is brief, vague, malleable tool

1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act backlash against robber barons, Standard Oil

Sherman Act, Standard Oil, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, Gates, trusts, monopoly


The government's antitrust scrutiny of Microsoft, the world's largest independent software company, has spanned Republican and Democratic administrations and involved hundreds of government lawyers and investigators.

Microsoft-IBM collaboration seen as start for building antitrust case

Government's pursuit of Microsoft Corp. is extensive but not consistent

Microsoft case outgrowth of investigations and complaints since 1989

IBM, OS/2, Windows, Norris Washington, FTC, antitrust, Microsoft, Clinton


Shortly before the government filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp. in May, Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust division, met with a Silicon Valley executive.

Microsoft-Netscape browser fight is heart of antitrust case

Anti-trust suit against Microsoft Corp. extends beyond Netscape issue only

Netscape center of case that includes Intel, IBM, Sun, Apple, AOL, Intuit

Netscape, Intel, antitrust suit, browser, bundled, Apple, Real Networks


Following is the text of the first two sections of the Sherman Act, as passed by Congress in 1890.

Sherman Antitrust act as basis for civil suit against Microsoft

Sherman Act invoked for civil suit to change Microsoft's business practices

Government files civil suit to change Microsoft's business practices

Sherman Act, 1890, Section 1, restraint of trade, Section 2, monopolize


Will it matter to consumers that Bill Gates isn't a nice guy?

Prosecution paints dark portrait of Bill Gates in antitrust trial

Federal Anti-trust suit paints dark image of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

Gates image: vicious schemer, bully, anxious to crush competitors

Justice Paints a Dark Portrait of Gates in Microsoft Antitrust Suit


Police and soldiers on Friday blocked off the street in front of a house where members of a terrorist gang are believed to have assembled the bomb that blew up the U.S. Embassy, killing 11 people.

Suspects in US embassy bombings arrested in Dar es Salaam and New York

Tanzanian police and FBI searching for suspects in bombing of U.S. Embassy

Two charged in Tanzania for US embassy bombing; more sought; house searched

Hemed, Ahmed, Khalfan, Fahad, Suzuki, Dar es Salaam bombing, U.S. embassy


German police raided several locations near Bonn after receiving word of a terrorist threat against the U.S. Embassy, but no evidence of a planned attack was found, officials said Wednesday.

German police react to possible terrorist threats against US embassy

No evidence of arms found after word of threat against U.S. embassy in Bonn

Threats to US installations in Germany where bin Laden aide jailed; search.

Bonn, police, raid, terrorist threat, U.S. embassy, Shuebel, Salim, Kenya


An Islamic militant group on Thursday threatened to retaliate if Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is arrested, and described Washington's No.

Osama bin Laden: US enemy, but hero to Islamic militants

Islamic group threatens retaliation if Osama bin Laden is arrested

Islamic militant calls bin Laden hero; killed 224, wounded 5,000 in Africa.

Pakistan, Islamic militant group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, retaliation, bin Laden


The Taliban's chief justice accused the United States on Wednesday of looking for an ``excuse'' to launch another missile attack on his war-shattered homeland.

Taliban accuses US of looking for excuse to attack Afghanistan

Taliban accuses U.S. of using bin Laden as excuse to launch missile attacks

Taliban: "Bin Laden honored guest. US looking for excuse to attack Afghans"

Taliban's Chief Justice Says U.S. Wants to Fire On Afghanistan Again


NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ FBI agents this week began questioning relatives of the victims of the Aug. 7 U.S. Embassy bombing as well as the seriously injured on request of the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, a U.S. official said Thursday.

US gathering testimony for trial of bombing suspects

FBI questioning Nairobi victims for evidence against U.S. embassy attackers

FBI prepares for trial of embassy bombing suspects; 3 jailed, 3 sought.

FBI, Kenya, U.S. embassy, gathering recorded testimony, six men indicted


The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya was declared a free man Friday in Afghanistan, where he has lived for years with the permission of the hard-line Islamic Taliban militia.

Afghan justice declares Osama bin Laden "a man without sin"

Taliban declares that Osama bin Laden is a free man in Afghanistan

Afghan Taliban declares bin Laden free; says no US proof he's terrorist.

Taliban's Inquiry Into bin Laden Terrorism Charges Over -- He's a "Free Man"


The New York Times said in an editorial on Monday, Oct. 26: Since the deadly bombing of two American embassies in Africa in August, there has been a troubling accumulation of evidence that the State Department inexplicably ignored warnings of possible terrorist attacks against the installations.

Editorial claims State Department ignored warnings of terrorist

State Department may have ignored warnings of attack against U.S. embassies

State Dept. had warning 9 months before Nairobi Embassy bombing; discounted

State Department Ignored Warning of Attack on U.S. Embassy in Kenya


Federal prison officials have cut off virtually all communications for two men being held in Manhattan in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Suspected US embassy bombers jailed in New York denied outside

Restrictions imposed on two held in bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa

Two suspects in African embassy bombings isolated in New York City jail.

Bombing, U.S. embassy, Kenya, Tanzania, Odeh and al' Owahli, segregate


A federal grand jury in Manhattan returned a 238-count indictment Wednesday charging the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden with conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa in August and with committing acts of terrorism against Americans abroad.

Federal grand jury indicts Osama bin Laden in US embassies bombings

Osama bin Laden indicted for conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Africa

Bin Laden and aide indicted for bombing African embassies; reward, search.

Reward, 238-count indictment, bin Laden, Atef, terrorism, embassy bombings


A federal district judge agreed Tuesday to review complaints by lawyers for three men arrested after the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that their jail conditions in Manhattan are unconstitutional and inhumane.

Lawyers for jailed bombing suspects claim jail conditions inhumane

Complaints about jail filed by 3 men arrested in embassy bombings in Africa

Judge to review conditions of embassy bombing suspects jailed in New York.

10 South, jail conditions, Sand, Young, Joy, bombings, U.S. embassies


The commander of Lebanon's army will become the country's next president after winning the crucial backing of Syria, the powerbroker in Lebanon.

Backed by Syria, Lebanon's army commander will be next President of Lebanon

Army Commander Emile Lahoud Lebanon's next president, has Syria's support

Syria okays army commander Lahoud to be next president of Lebanon.

Syria Supports Gen. Emile Lahoud to Succeed Hrawi as President of Lebanon


A Cabinet minister and a close Syria ally on Wednesday criticized the Syrian-backed choice of the army commander as president, and said he will boycott a vote to elect the military man for the executive post.

Cabinet minister criticizes choice of military man for Lebanon's president

Walid Jumblatt opposed to a military president, fears civilian surveillance

Lebanon: Some oppose army commander as next President; fear of militarism.

Jumblatt, Progessive Socialist Party, Lebanon, vote, president, Oct. 23


Lebanon's Parliament on Tuesday ratified a constitutional amendment to clear the way for the election of the army's commander, Gen. Emile Lahoud, as president.

Constitutional change made for army commander to be Lebanon's president

Constitutional amendment clears way for Lahoud's election as president

Lebanon: Constitutional amendment clears way to elect army head President.

Lebanon, constitutional amendment, Lahoud, civil servants, presidency


Parliament on Thursday formally elected Gen. Emile Lahoud, the popular army commander who has the backing of powerful neighbor Syria, as Lebanon's next president.

General Emile Lahoud formally elected President of Lebanon

Lebanese parliament formally elects Emile Lahoud to 6-year presidency

Lebanon: Army commander Lahoud elected President; 6-year term begins Nov 24

Lebanon's Parliament Elects Gen. Lahoud President -- Assumes Office Nov. 24


Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's efforts to win a fourth term in office have hit a snag after he failed to receive the expected speedy appointment from new President Emile Lahoud.

PM Hariri expects fourth term but new president not quick to appoint

Businessman Rafik Hariri, head of corrupt govt, not re-appointed as PM

Lebanon: Prime Minister's reappointment a question; economy good; corrupt?

Prime minister, Hariri, Lahoud, Parliament, Hrawi, corruption, decree


Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has declined an informal invitation from Lebanon's new president to form the next government, sparking a political crisis in this country as it rebuilds from its devastating civil war.

Political crisis in Lebanon as PM Hariri declines to form next government

Hariri, rebuilder of Lebanon, declines Lahoud invitation to form new gov't

Lebanon: Prime Minister won't form new govt; prelude to power struggle?

Lebanon's Prime Minister Hariri Declines Invite to Select New Cabinet


Informal invitation to PM Hariri to form government for Lebanon declined

Hariri declines Lahoud invitation to form gov't despite Syrian support


Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the business tycoon who launched Lebanon's multibillion dollar reconstruction from the devastation of civil war, said Monday he was bowing out as premier following a dispute with the new president.

Hariri bowing out as premier after dispute with new Lebanese President PM

Hariri claims his PM appointment by Lahoud violates constitution, bows out

Lebanon: Prime Minister bows out; support waned; blames new President.

Prime Minister Hariri, Claiming Constitution Violation, Bows Out


Hours before China was expected to sign a key U.N. human rights treaty and host British Prime Minister Tony Blair, police hauled a prominent human rights campaigner in for questioning Monday.

Hours before signing of U.S. human rights treaty, China arrests dissident

China arrests rights group organizer hours before signing UN rights treaty

Human rights fighter jailed before China to sign pledge and Blair visit.

Yongmin, China Human Rights Observer, U.N., treaty, Blair, dissidents


China released a respected, but ailing labor rights campaigner from a prison work camp Sunday and immediately sent him into exile in the United States.

China exiles rights campaigner to U.S. to soften trial of noted dissident

China frees imprisoned dissidents then exiles them to end their influence

China exiles labor dissenter; trial to begin against political dissenter.

Liu, Xu, dissidents, labor rights, exile, Wei, Wang, China, prison


Trying to deflect foreign criticism of a crackdown on democracy campaigners, China sent a respected labor rights activist from jail into U.S. exile Sunday even as it prepared to put a prominent dissident on trial.

China trying dissident, 3rd in 3 weeks, in violation of new rights law.

China: 3-week campaign against dissenters; one exiled to appease West.

China, Democracy Party, Communist Party, subverting state power, trial


In stern judgments capping a decisive crackdown on dissidents, Chinese courts sentenced two prominent democracy campaigners to 13 and 11 years in prison Monday for trying to organize an opposition political party.

China sends two dissidents to jail for trying to organize opposition party

China gives 2 activists long prison terms for organizing opposition party

China goes after Democracy Party; 2 leaders sentenced to decade in jail.

Harsh Sentences for Chinese Dissidents - Wenli, 13 years; Youcai, 11 Years


German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, who drew China's anger recently by meeting with exiled dissident Wei Jingsheng, said China's sentencing of two dissidents Monday was unacceptable and flouted an international treaty the country recently signed.

German Foreign Minister says China's arrest of dissidents is unacceptable

German Foreign Minister calls China's sentencing of dissidents unacceptable

German Minister calls China's jailing of two dissenters "unacceptable."

German Foreign Minister Decries Wenli and Youcai Sentences


German Minister calls China's jailing of two dissenters "unacceptable".


The trials of three outspoken dissidents over, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin signaled Wednesday that China will sustain a crackdown on dissent throughout next year.

President Jiang vows to crush any challenges to Communist Party rule

Hard-line speech, publicized dissident sentences, signals Chinese crackdown

China renews crackdown on political activists; 3 jailed; population warned.

Jiang, hard-line, Xu, Qin, Wang, stability, Deng, U.N. rights treaties


His friend and political mentor is jailed, robbing their budding opposition political party of its most potent organizer, but Zha Jianguo is not afraid.

China Democracy Party vows to campaign for change despite Jiang's warnings

Chinese rights activist expects to be sacrifice in cause of democracy.

China Democracy Party continues fight, underground; Communism's foes warned

China Democracy Party, Zha, legally subversive, Communist, Xu, Wang, Qin


By sentencing two of the country's most prominent democracy campaigners to long prison terms, China on Monday took its harshest steps yet in its current crackdown on organized political opposition.

China's arrest of dissidents could destroy China Democracy Party

Long sentences for activists signal treaties won't ease political controls

China: two pro-democracy politicians given long jail terms; US critical

Xu, subversion, Wang, Qin, China Democracy, international covenants, Zemin


Six months after President Clinton traveled to Beijing and challenged China's leaders to move rapidly toward political reform, the administration's policy of engaging Beijing was called into question Monday when Chinese courts sentenced three of the nation's most prominent dissidents to long jail sentences.

U.S. policy of trade and diplomacy for democratic reform failing in China

US policy of trade, ties encouraging Chinese democracy is questioned

China's economic reforms not prelude to democracy; Clinton's policy panned.

Clinton, China policy, Jiang, Xu, Wang, Qin, human rights, trade, democracy