Word: benjamin
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...said publicly that it expects Israel to refrain from holding its fire, as was the case during the Gulf War. Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country has the "know-how" to cope with an Iraqi strike. And that could mean nukes, says Beyer. "The message is uniform that Israel will retaliate in a devastating way ? which is certainly meant to imply that they would use nuclear weapons." Officially, Israel is silent about its nuclear capability...
...Core reform. Select departmental courses must count for core credit. Though I am placing this issue in the category of personal priorities, the progress already made by the council is due almost entirely to Sarah K. Hurwitz '99, James T. Grimmelmann '99 and Benjamin A. Rahn '99, as well as former Student Affairs Committee chair Eric M. Nelson '99, a Crimson editor. Their efforts will continue and will be supported by my lobbying of administrators...
...BILL CLINTON'S initial 90-minute Oval Office meeting last Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the President chided his visitor for meeting with the Rev. JERRY FALWELL and evangelical Christian groups at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington the day before coming to the White House. "Look, Bibi," said Clinton firmly. "You meet with Falwell [because] you think I am snubbing you. I could make the argument that you are gigging me." The television evangelist, who is anathema to Clinton, has distributed political videotapes that conspiratorially--and unconvincingly--hint, among other things, at the former Governor's complicity...
...Arafat's Turn The President's meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu produced no substantive results; now Clinton gets to do it again with Arafat. Expect the ritual to be repeated some time soon...
WASHINGTON: Following Tuesday?s nothing-to-report meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu, President Clinton meets Thursday with Yasser Arafat. The pattern is familiar, says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad: ?After Thursday, they?ll send a U.S. envoy to the region to get talks restarted. Both sides will repeat the same complaints they presented to Clinton. The envoy will leave, the situation will deteriorate and then, at some point, they?ll be back in the White House...