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...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
...professors, all of whom are involved in refugee and human rights issues, wrote in their September 22 missive that the terms of the present accord with Haiti are insufficient for a variety of reasons, but primarily because of the agreement's failure to fully demilitarize the aggressors...
Mahran knows that his own country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...
...Muslim nations said to other Muslim nations, 'It's O.K. to support family planning,' as did Catholic nations to other Catholic nations." Thus, the consensus achieved in Cairo may allow the world community to move beyond divisive debates about abortion and contraception in dealing with the population juggernaut. The accord may signal a new, more mature approach to confronting a potential global disaster...
...last-minute swerve away from a Haiti invasion isn't pleasing its chief beneficiary -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This morning the exiled Haitian President issued a terse statement that pointedly failed to mention the accord brokered Sunday by former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said...