Word: aviv
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...warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed by 500,000 Israelis -- nearly 10% of the population -- demanding that he initiate electoral reform. Popular protest has been growing steadily. Last month 250,000 rallied in Tel Aviv to denounce the political system; this week protesters plan to hold a mass demonstration at the Knesset. Says lawyer Eliad Shraga, who has been staging a vigil outside Herzog's house in Jerusalem: "We need a skipper who will take us to the left or to the right." Otherwise...
...caretaker government has been raiding the nation's coffers to build new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Christian quarter of Jerusalem. "Our leadership is morally unworthy of leading this country," says Uriel Reichman, dean of the law faculty at Tel Aviv University...
...which the deposed dictator plundered Panama is becoming clearer. Edmund Pankau, a Houston private detective, has put together an inventory of Noriega's vast real estate holdings from papers found after his arrest. The list includes two office buildings in New Orleans, interests in Florida hotels, property in Tel Aviv and the south of France, an Italian villa and a house in Spain. Total value: more than $800 million...
...presumed nuclear capability, still a monopoly despite Saddam's best efforts, does not seem to be an effective deterrent. "The situation is similar to the balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s," says Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. "America had overwhelming superiority, but the Soviets could have caused great damage if they got off a first strike...
...coalition of Likud and Labor has functioned as something of a joke, breeding acrimony and indecision. Its foreign policy has been contradictory. Peres proposed swapping land for peace; Shamir insisted on both peace and territory. Says Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv: "Imagine Richard Nixon and George McGovern in the same Cabinet trying to negotiate the Paris peace talks ((with Viet...