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Saddam Hussein appears to have succeeded where Madeleine Albright failed -- in getting Israel's cabinet to endorse the Wye peace accord. After days of stonewalling, Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly pushed approval of the Wye agreement through his cabinet late Wednesday, following a Tuesday night phone call from President Clinton. "It certainly helped that the Americans are poised to bomb Iraq," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis couldn't afford to be the reason that Washington was being given a hard time from Arab countries over action against Saddam...
...Benjamin P. Sachs, co-director of the newcenter and co-director of the related HarvardCenter for Women's Health, said, "Harvardhospitals and the Medical School have alwaysdevoted significant time and resources to theissues relating to women's health, includingresearch/education and developing programs forunderserved women...
...Women's Hospital and anassociate professor of medicine at HMS. Sachs alsoserves as chair of the Department of Obstetricsand Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess MedicalCenter and professor of obstetrics, gynecology andreproductive biology at HMS.CrimsonMatthew P. MillerA HELPING HAND:Dr. ANDREA E. DUNAIF(left), Dr. ELEANOR G. SHORE and Dr. BENJAMIN P.SACHS (inset) run the National Center ofExcellence for Women's Health at Harvard MedicalSchool...
...Oslo Accords before it, the Wye Memorandum delays discussion of such pressing issues as the status of Jerusalem and the settlements. Last Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which was in 1967 entirely...
...take more than a Hamas bomb attack to derail the Mideast peace process -- if Benjamin Netanyahu is serious about the Wye Accord. Israel announced Friday it would indefinitely suspend implementing the agreement after two suicide bombers injured 21 Israelis in a Jerusalem market. But that's standard operating procedure, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They'll probably resume discussion in a few days." After all, it's not as if Hamas attacks are unexpected, and stopping the peace process is exactly what the militants are trying to do. "But Bibi's delays all week indicate that...