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...elections and a level economic playing field, or, in some cases, just to be cut in on the corruption. Outsiders want to hold onto their power, squash the press and keep their business monopolies. The lawlessness of the intifadeh has made the squabbles more coldly violent. In February, Abu Amr, the owner of the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from...
...warnings against compromise on the refugees and on Jerusalem articulated by Egypt's foreign minister Amr Mousa on behalf of the Arab League states kicked the chair out from under Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat had on Tuesday accepted "with reservations" President Clinton's negotiating framework, but the Cairo decision nixed a key component of the plan. Although it was never made public, the U.S. proposal was said to involve Israel withdrawing from all of Gaza and 95 percent of the West Bank, and recognizing Palestinian sovereignty in parts of East Jerusalem, including the Islamic holy sites atop the Temple...
...giving the world is not quite the personal computer, it could become to 21st century manufacturers what the cotton gin was to the farmer or the loom to the miller. "If these guys have the materials and can automate the manufacturing process," says Kevin Prouty, an industry analyst with AMR Research in Boston, "that's moving toward a new level--toward a manufacturing renaissance...
...Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except a murderer and criminal...
Milton won his prominence in a bareknuckle corporate brawl. Only a few weeks after assuming the presidency in August 1999, he was hit with a hostile takeover bid backed by AMR, parent of American Airlines. Milton won a court verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing...