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Embassy bombing trial begins today The trial in the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa begins today in U.S. District Court in New York. The government’s first witness may be an informer who worked for Osama bin Laden until 1996.
Saudis arrest suspected bombers Saudi officials arrested Westerners—a three Briton, a Canadian and a
Belgian—in connection with two explosions that killed a British man and injured four other Britons in Saudi Arabia last fall.
Astronauts finish up preparations in Florida The five astronauts who are to deliver a $1.4 billion science lab to the International Space Station began their final preparations for Wednesday’s scheduled launch from
Cape Canaveral.
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Los Alamos scientist faces more questions Federal prosecutors may seek court approval to further question Wen Ho Lee, who pleaded guilty to a single count of mishandling national security information Sept. 13 and agreed to be interrogated under oath for 60 days. Bush team may ignore Russian treaty Secretary of State Colin Powell said the Bush administration is committed to pursuing a national missile defense system, even if it means scrapping a long-standing treaty
with Russia.
Canada’s Chretien
visits White House Worried that American attention is shifting to Mexico, Canada’s prime minister, Jean Chretien will visit the White House today, becoming the first foreign leader to meet President George W Bush.
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Russian forces liberate U.S. hostage The relief operations director is unharmed; aid operations will resume By PATRICK TYLER
New York Times News Service
MOSCOW After more than three weeks in captivity in Chechnya, Kenneth Gluck, a New Yorker who is the director of relief operations for the aid group Doctors Without Borders, was freed Saturday night in an operation conductEd by Russia’s security services. Russian television, broadcasting from Khankala, the military base outside the Chechen capital, Grozny, showed Gluck, bearded and bareheaded under light snow, as he made a call by satellite phone to his colleagues in Nazran in neighboring Ingushetia and answered questions from Russian journalists.
“I feel fine,” he said, speaking in The kidnapping set off alarms Russian. “I am very happy that I among hundreds ofinternational aid am no longer a prisoner.” He said workers who minister to more than he had been treated “well enough” 300,000 refugees from Chechnya, and harbored no ill will toward where basic food and health services have been largely destroyed by two Chechnya or the Chechen people. “I was not beaten or anything,” cycles of war since 1994. All aid ophe said. “Now I am just anxious to erations in Chechnya were suspended; they are now expected to resume. go home.” Neither Gluck nor Russian offiGluck was particularly well cials would disclose any details known in Chechnya for marshaling about his captors or their fate in medical aid to bomb-damaged hosthe rescue operation, in which offi- pitals that represent the only medcials indicated that no shots had ical life line for hundreds of thoubeen fired. sands of Chechens. A spokesperson Gluck was the only person for the Federal Security Service, seized Jan. 9, when the convoy in Aleksandr Zdanovich, said Gluck which he was traveling south of would be transported to Nazran, Grozny was attacked by gunmen. probably today.
Israel prepares for expected Sharon win By DEBORAH SONTAG
New York Times News Service
JERUSALEM Two days before a potentially fateful election for prime minister, the presumption of a victory by Ariel Sharon, the right-wing leader, has made for a lackluster campaign climax. Most Israelis are already peering beyond Election Day to the diplomatic and political repercussions of what news programs call “the day after.” A lifelong public servant and former general, Sharon is known best as the mastermind of the inva-
sion of Lebanon in 1982 that entangled Israel in Lebanon for the next 18 years. With opinion polls showing Sharon 17 to 21 percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
the outcome of the Israeli election is accepted as a foregone conclusion by almost everyone. Even a very close associate of Barak spoke Sunday not of if but of when the prime minister loses. In the hall outside Barak’s office, the associate said no one knew what Barak would do next: Step down as Labor Party leader, join a unity government with Sharon or seek to persevere as the opposition leader. Across the country, Israelis are tired after months of disorienting commotion. The fall brought the dispiriting deterioration of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship into ongoing violence. And the winter brought an internally divisive election campaign after Barak, pushed into a corner by a. parliament in open revolt, resigned.
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