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...seek not only a return to the 1967 borders but the elimination of the State of Israel. Still, there is no Palestinian leader of any inclination willing to accept anything less than a settlement based on the 1967 borders (or a modified version of those). And Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has made clear he has no intention of offering anything close to such a settlement - indeed, Israeli analysts believe Sharon's idea of Palestinian statehood doesn't extend much beyond a modified version of the almost 50 percent of the West Bank and Gaza currently designated as under Palestinian...
...camp of Jabalya. Israeli officials denied accusations by the Palestinian Authority that the raid had been a revenge attack. In further violence, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis in a West Bank settlement, and a Hamas leader died in an assault by Israeli attack helicopters. Meanwhile, under Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Cabinet, which includes groups that support the settlement movement, Israeli troops seized part of the Gaza Strip to create a "security zone." Killer Blast THE PHILIPPINES A bomb that exploded at Davao City airport in the southern island of Mindanao killed 21 people, including an American missionary...
...Administration is helping to broker arrangements by which Jordan will be supplied with oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the same preferential terms (a 75% discount on the market price) it now receives from Iraq. Last week Dov Weisglass, director-general of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was at the White House for talks with Gary Edson, an economic and national-security aide to Bush. The Israelis, sources familiar with the negotiations tell TIME, have asked for an extra $4 billion in military aid for equipment such as missile-defense and early-warning systems, plus another...
...Arafat suddenly accede to a demand that the Israelis--who say they can no longer work with Arafat--and the U.S. have been making for months? It may be the looming war with Iraq. U.S. and Palestinian officials tell TIME that Arafat fears Israel's hawkish Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, will exile or kill him while the world's attention is focused on the war. "There's a Palestinian concern that if the balloon goes up over Iraq, Sharon will use that as cover to come in and get rid of Arafat," says a senior U.S. official...
Since the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over Mass. Hall, Harvard student activists have protested AIDS in Africa, war in Afghanistan and Ariel Sharon in Israel. But in the past two years, outrage at issues facing the College has been conspicuously lacking. Fortunately, students have rallied behind keeping shopping period intact and staving off Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William R. Kirby’s pernicious preregistration plans...