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Washington and Cairo cooperated last week to keep Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman out of circulation. The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals rejected an asylum bid by the radical Muslim cleric, now being held in a federal prison, and upheld a deportation order issued in March. Egyptian authorities also began seeking his extradition to face charges of inciting antigovernment riots in Egypt in 1989 -- though the 1874 treaty governing extradition between the U.S. and Egypt does not appear to cover that offense. Egypt hanged seven of the sheik's followers last week for attacks against foreign tourists and conspiring to overthrow the government.
Baghdad Balks at Cameras
No pictures, Saddam Hussein told frustrated U.N. inspectors who have been trying for more than a month to install surveillance cameras at two missile- testing sites. The U.N. responded by proposing to place tamper-proof seals over the most sensitive missile components until the camera issue is resolved.
Yanks in Skopje
An advance guard of 41 soldiers from the U.S. Army's Berlin Brigade arrived in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia to join 700 U.N. peacekeepers keeping an eye on the borders of neighboring Albania and Serbia.
Farewell to Auschwitz
A controversy that has anguished Catholics and Jews for nearly a decade ended with the departure of the last Carmelite nun from a convent adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April.
Rioting in Nigeria
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Lagos, Nigeria's capital, to protest the despotism of General Ibrahim Babangida, who three weeks ago annulled last month's election while the votes were still being counted. The general has repeatedly backed away from earlier promises to return his country to civilian rule. He says he will step down at the end of August, but refuses to hand over the government to businessman Moshood Abiola, the clear but unofficial winner of the June election.
The Czar's Bones
British and Russian forensic scientists have determined beyond all doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution.
BUSINESS
Gold Goes Higher and Higher
Generally bad news about the global economy, and rumors that big speculators were buying, made good news for gold. Prices pushed toward $400 an ounce last week, perhaps portending an end to a 13-year down market.
Apple Slices Itself