ARGENTINA. . . LOW-KEY ARRESTS IN JEWISH BOMBING

Argentine police have arrested two Syrians and a Lebanese man in connection with the July 18 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed more than 100 people. But are the detainees, nabbed within the last 48 hours with four kilos of TNT, the culprits? The Argentine authorities, who have desperately paraded a line of dubious Mideastern suspects before the anxious public since July, are keeping these arrests off the front page, says TIME Buenos Aires reporter Carl Honore. The investigating judge has switched his sights from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to Iranian embassy officials to Lebanon over the summer, under pressure to produce results. "This has become almost a farcical soap opera, going in so many directions that everybody's confused," says Honore.BTW: