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June 17, 2002
Sara Fritz
New department, but same old ways
WASHINGTON -- Ever since President Bush announced his proposal more than a week ago for a Homeland Security Department, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have been playing a clever little cat-and-mouse game with it.

Legislature debate stalls loya jirga
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The grand council fashioning Afghanistan's new government erupted in argument and accusations Sunday over what kind of legislature should represent a fragmented population with competing interests jockeying desperately to be heard.

Deep Throat? Still anybody's guess
WASHINGTON -- Only in a city such as this one, where unidentified sources can make or break a political career, would seemingly sane people spend 30 years trying to guess the identity of a phantom source known as Deep Throat.

Susan Taylor Martin
Harboring hashish
Morocco does little to weed out a drug that brings in $3-billion a year.

Most terror cases don't go to court
WASHINGTON -- The FBI has been seeking prosecution of international terrorism cases at six times the rate it did before Sept. 11, but more than half of those cases considered by federal prosecutors never made it to court, Justice Department records show.

Israel starts to build West Bank fence
JERUSALEM -- Israeli bulldozers began work Sunday on a controversial project to erect a fence and sophisticated security system along the length of the West Bank in an attempt to seal off the Palestinian-controlled territory from Israel.



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