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...economic shape of the Gaza Strip would help limit the appeal of Hamas -- which is why Palestinian officials, backed by the U.S. and Israel, will lobby international donors this week in Brussels to give the Palestinian Authority significant funding. Foreign aid is especially important now, since, as Khaled Abdul-Shafi, a Gaza economist, notes, "what happened last Friday reduces the chances of private investment to zero...
Ending 46 years of enmity, the leaders of Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, witnessed by President Clinton. Jordan's Prime Minister Abdul-Salam al-Majali and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the treaty, which settles long-standing territory disputes and pledges cooperation in trade and tourism...
...scene was novel -- and euphoric: Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sitting at a table near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side of the border last week across from his counterpart from Amman, Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali. Meeting for the first time publicly on Jordanian territory, the two men started talking about taking practical steps that would all but end the state of war that has existed between their two countries since...
...Khallid Abdul Muhammad, the former Nation of Islam spokesman whose vitriolic speeches against whites, Catholics and Jews have engendered outrage and condemnation, was shot and wounded in both legs after addressing a mostly black audience at the University of California at Riverside. Police arrested a suspect at the scene identified as an ousted member of the Nation of Islam...
...Hutu army chief of staff guaranteed safe passage to U.N. soldiers evacuating wounded Tutsi civilians. But soldiers along the road stopped the convoy, ordered people out and set upon them with machetes. "They said they didn't take orders from the army chief of staff," said U.N. spokesman Abdul Kabia...