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    Jerusalem Post
    January 9, 2005

    News in Brief

    Yeshiva students freed after priest attack

    by Etgar Lefkovits, Janine Zacharia

    Four yeshiva students who allegedly assaulted an Armenian Priest in
    the Old City of Jerusalem were released on bail on Friday, police
    said.

    During a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, three of
    the suspects were ordered to stay out of the Old City for 90 days.

    Police said that they will issue indictments against all four
    suspects, three of whom live outside the city. * Etgar Lefkovits

    Protests allowed at civil servants' homes

    In a blow to police, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ruled Friday
    that far-right activists may demonstrate outside the homes of
    government workers under certain restrictions, police said.

    The decision flies in the face of police requests to keep protesters
    away from civil servants' homes, in keeping with the instructions of
    former attorney- general Elyakim Rubinstein.

    In the ruling Friday, Judge Shimon Feinberg ordered two far-right
    activists arrested Thursday during an illegal anti-disengagement
    protest outside the Jerusalem home of the IDF chaplain released on
    bail. * Etgar Lefkovits

    Zoellick new deputy secretary of state

    WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush on Friday chose Robert
    Zoellick, the US Trade Representative, to be deputy secretary of
    state. Zoellick, who will replace Richard Armitage as the second
    highest ranking US diplomat, will face Senate confirmation.

    Zoellick, a long-time diplomat, has been for the past four years the
    chief US official negotiating free trade agreements around the world,
    including with Middle Eastern countries like Morocco. Zoellick's
    confirmation hearing should take place in the coming weeks.

    National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who Bush has nominated to
    replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State, will face Senate
    questioning on January 18.

    Also on Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, a leading
    architect of the Iraq war, said he had been asked to remain in the
    Bush administration. "I have been asked to stay and have accepted,"
    Wolfowitz told Reuters through a spokesman. * Janine Zacharia
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