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...petitions will call the attention of the Nigerian government to what's happening and to the fact that it's not in accord with the United Nations statement of rights," said Stephen V. David '96, spokesperson for the Nigeria and Kenya Committee of Amnesty International at Harvard...
...like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you-in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men," Prime Minister Rabin told Palestinians in 1994 as he signed the peace accord with Yasser Arafat in Washington. A reticent, tough-minded leader, Rabin was known as the principal force behind Israel's historic peace agreement with the Palestinians. The Army chief of staff who led the Israeli forces to a remarkable victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Rabin later served as Ambassador to the United States...
Some will doubtless point to the recent Oslo Accord Declaration of Principles between the Rabin government and the PLO. Not for a moment should anyone be so naive as to think that a man with Arafat's dubious resume is now committed to the hallowed principles of peace which all Americans hold in such high esteem...
...mediator Richard Holbrooke received assurance from the Croatian army that it would not seek to recapture the territory in eastern Croatia seized by Serbs, preserving the fragile accord between Bosnia's warring parties. By last Saturday, the fighting had ceased throughout the country, at least for the moment. In Sarajevo streetcar service resumed, and lights blazed in shop windows. But news arrived at week's end that the Serbs may have waged a new campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Bosnia during the past month, raising fears that 2,000 Muslim men have been massacred...
...leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, whose bitter opposition to peace with Israel has fueled dozens of suicide bombings against Israelis, said he still opposes the accord on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...