Nairobi

After six weeks as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya last summer, U.S. Military Academy cadet Alison M. Jones of Towson reluctantly cleaned out her desk and said goodbye to her embassy friends. She had walked just two blocks when a blast nearly knocked her over.A bomb had detonated August 7, crumbling the embassy in Nairobi and killing 213 people. As thousands, screaming in panic, ran from the building, Jones' first thought was, "I have to get back in there to help."She did.In the hours after the blast, Jones rescued people buried in debris, helped recover bodies, and, with no prompting, roped off the building to keep others safe.

WASHINGTON -- The United States worked for four months to help Turkey arrest Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish rebel leader, U.S. officials said yesterday.U.S. diplomatic pressure backed by intelligence gathering helped to put Ocalan in flight from a haven in Syria, to persuade nation after nation to refuse him sanctuary and to drive him into an increasingly desperate search for a city of refuge, the officials said."We as a government tried to figure out where he was, where he was going and how we might bring him to justice," a senior administration official said.

One thing I can promise about "Heat of the Sun" on public television tonight: You won't confuse this five-part series with any other mystery on the small screen this season. It is absolutely the jewel in the crown of PBS' "Mystery!" franchise this year.Cunningly crafted and wonderfully cast, it feels as if it must be based on a classic English novel or set of novels. But it isn't. "Heat of the Sun" was written for television.In it, we leave the English drawing room behind and head straight for "the bush" -- an on-location enterprise in Africa that ran so disastrously over budget, say the producers, that we are never going to see any episodes beyond the five starting tonight.

WASHINGTON -- Less than three weeks after the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the Clinton administration filed charges yesterday against a Yemenite flown to the United States overnight, who has said he took part in the Kenya blast and expected to die a martyr.U.S. officials told reporters that unprecedented international cooperation is producing results in the global investigation of the bombings -- blasts that are being blamed on terrorists and that led to retaliatory airstrikes last week against suspected terrorist support sites in Afghanistan and Sudan.

MOST OF THE harm in the exchange of explosives between terrorists and the United States was to neither of the above. It was, to use the euphemism of the military, collateral damage. Unintended victims. The innocent.This was notably true of the terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Although 12 U.S. citizens were murdered in the Nairobi attack, so were 247 Kenyans.More than 5,000 people were treated in Kenya's under-equipped hospitals and 542 hospitalized.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, after assessing the damage and visiting the victims of the twin U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, said yesterday that she would seek supplemental funds from Congress to compensate Kenya and Tanzania.She declined to say how much the administration will request when Congress returns from its summer recess but said it would be "substantial."Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities said last night that they arrested two more suspects in the bombings with the help of descriptions provided by suspect Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, the New York Times reported.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Mohammed Sadiq Odeh, the suspect extradited from Pakistan for questioning here about the twin bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, operates under two aliases, according to investigators, and has been identified as a Palestinian.Odeh, 32, is being questioned by agents of the FBI and Kenya's Criminal Investigation Division in Nairobi, who said he has not admitted responsibility for the attacks nor implicated anyone else, although reports from Pakistan at the time of his extradition said he had confessed and named his partners.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Two little girls, Grace, 12, and Maryanne, 9, stood beside their mother's varnished coffin in Langata Cemetery here yesterday and said in sweet but sad chorus: "We shall miss our dear mother."Then Alice Nduta Gachiri, 38, bomb victim, was buried in the red earth of Africa.There for the family farewell was her husband, Mwangi Gachiri Kabugu. Ten days earlier, he had scrabbled with his bare hands in the rubble of the bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy here, which left 247 dead and more than 5,000 injured.

NOTHING will compensate for the 12 U.S. citizens, serving their country far from home, who died in the terrorist bombings in East Africa. The nation and its citizens are forever in their debt.The nation's sympathy also goes to the citizens of Kenya and Tanzania. The targets may have been U.S. embassies, but the effect was war on Kenya, where nearly 250 died in Nairobi and some 5,000 were wounded. The casualties were fewer in Dar es Salaam, but Tanzania, an even poorer country, was equally attacked.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- An Egyptian terrorist group financed by a fugitive Saudi Arabian Islamic fundamentalist is now the leading suspect in the twin bombings that killed 257 people at the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, according to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials.According to U.S. officials who asked not to be identified, a Kenyan security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi picked an operative from the terrorist network of Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden from photographs shown to him by FBI investigators in Nairobi.