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The federal government will not allow pilots of commercial airplanes to carry lethal weapons in the cockpit, John Magaw, the undersecretary of transportation security, announced Tuesday at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

Pictures of the destruction caused by the recent violence in the Middle East have galvanized public opinion worldwide, but are presented in vastly different ways by broadcasters in Israel and the Arab world. Terence Smith reports.