Enron sparks 401(k) debate
Proposals before Congress seek to limit how much company stock can be held in retirement accounts and put caps on no-trade periods.

Retaking rebel zone unlikely to end war
In Colombia, some say the struggle for the zone won't end rebel attacks or kidnappings, but it may assuage the public.

Fighting terror notebook
Justice knocking at anthrax lab doors

Scooter bomb hits Rome
ROME -- A bomb hidden in a motor scooter exploded outside the Interior Ministry before dawn Tuesday. No one was hurt, but the blast unnerved a nation fearful of a major attack and mindful of its history of domestic terrorism.

Pentagon abandons public sentiment idea
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's flirtation with a high-level office to influence public sentiment abroad came to an abrupt end Tuesday, when the fledgling effort was ingloriously disbanded in response to pressure from the White House and dissension within the Defense Department.

Georgia to get U.S. training, equipment
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has begun providing combat helicopters to the former Soviet republic of Georgia and will soon begin training several Georgian battalions to counter what defense officials think is a growing terrorist threat in the country's mountainous Pankisi Gorge region.

Widow: Unite in fight on terrorism
KARACHI, Pakistan -- The widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl appealed to Pakistan's government and its people on Tuesday to find the people who killed her husband and said the world must unite to fight terrorism.

U.S. program failing to halt drug crops, report charges
WASHINGTON -- The U.S.-backed drug war in Colombia is looking bleak, partly because officials are having trouble getting impoverished farmers to stop planting illegal crops in territory controlled by Marxist rebels, a government report says.