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...fratricide has always loomed in the background as the Palestine Liberation Organization sought to impose its authority, especially in the heavily fundamentalist Gaza Strip. Until recently, Arafat's self-rule administration had maintained a compact with the militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which adamantly oppose his peace accord with Israel and are trying to sabotage it with violence. The extremists focused their attacks on Israel and areas of the West Bank still under Israeli control. Arafat, for the most part, left them alone within his jurisdiction in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, despite Israeli pressure to crack down...
...Netzarim in the Gaza Strip and detonated the explosives strapped to his body, killing three, wounding six and injuring five Arab bystanders, including a Palestinian police officer. Arafat's government responded to the suicide attack by rounding up 115 militants and banning rallies by opponents of the peace accord. No wonder Arafat complained to an aide, "Everything is coming down on my head...
...aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has threatened to cut Israeli aid, but today, future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) promised no aid cuts "at this time...
...show support for PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,whose police killed 14 peoplewhen they fired into a crowd of Islamic activists Friday. "We support democracy, but we need security and stability to build our state," Arafat told cheering supporters. Butleaders of militant Islamic groupsopposed to the peace accord with Israel called the rally a provocation and said it could damage a shaky truce they reached through mediators over the weekend.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), fighting -- which began on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 -- will stop Wednesday. The truce will remain in effect until final details emerge as part of a United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan people have suffered for 20 years," said Alioune Blondin Beye, the U.N. special envoy to Angola today. "There is going to be no more killing in Angola."Post your opinion...