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To: tekboy who wrote (26624)	4/23/2002 5:26:19 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"UPI hears" upi.com A sign of the times in Israel is the increased demand for security guards, but despite unemployment at 10.3 percent -- the highest level since 1993 -- there hasn't exactly been a rush of applicants. No wonder: Duties can include patroling popular shopping centers and guarding cafes to stop Palestinian suicide bombers. So the Tel Aviv social service office has adopted a simple strategy. Refusal to take the security job can result in cancellation of unemployment benefits. Even students no longer can count on their academic exemptions. The substitute head of the service, Ya'akov Nizri, said, "We need security guards at the current time, and I will do everything I can to supply the manpower." Many unemployed have argued that the work would put their lives at great risk, and a number are threatening to challenge the social security office's strategy in court. -0- The fallout from last week's failed coup in Venezuela continues to raise questions about how much the Bush administration knew and when it knew it. Despite pious denials that Washington had nothing to do with the enforced resignation of President Hugo Chavez and his surprise comeback 24 hours later, official sources in Caracas investigating the incident are leaking the fact that U.S. military attaché Lt. Col James Rodgers advised the generals behind the coup and stayed with them until the short-lived government of Carmona failed. According to Venezuelan investigators, Rodgers was with the coup plotters on the 5th floor of the army general command building in Fort Tiuna in Caracas from Thursday, April 11, to 5 p.m. on Saturday April 13, by which time power was being restored to Chavez. Several of the officers involved in the coup admitted during interrogation that they had been aware of Rodgers, and believed that his presence signaled American support for the operation. A spokesman for the U.S. embassy had "no reaction" to the report. -0-

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