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...deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided by the Greek Orthodox priests who help...
Since Jan. 1, 2000, falls on the Jewish Sabbath, New Year's Eve will be quiet in the western part of Jerusalem. But Bethlehem is planning a two-week ecumenical Holy Nights festival that starts Dec. 24 and ends Jan. 7, Orthodox Christmas on the Julian calendar...
...BETHLEHEM: The Austrian investors behind the Oasis Casino must be feeling pretty lucky; otherwise, the odds against a gambling palace in the Palestinian town of Jericho would seem awfully steep. The $50 million facility that opened Tuesday night sits right across the road from a dusty Palestinian refugee camp. And while Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (PA) stands to collect a fortune in gaming taxes, ordinary Palestinians aren't invited. Entry is restricted to holders of foreign passports, which means most gamblers at the Oasis will be Israeli...
...politician [WORLD, Jan. 26]. They have placed in view their respective dogmas, which are in collision. Both claim commitment to social justice in a world at peace. The Pope relies on engagement and evangelization to propagate his religious faith. Castro resorts to oppression to impose policy. JOHN J. KARAKASH Bethlehem...
...Holnist Army, this mounted horde is meant to recall an army of Huns, but comes off looking like a collection of highly regimented hoboes (all of that matted facial hair, along with an uninspired dress code, doesn't help matters). The Holnists are led by one General Bethlehem (Will Patton), a ruthless former copy machine sales clerk who found his true calling in fascist leadership after nuclear war vaporized society. Because he knows five or six lines of Shakespeare and can paint a passable self-portrait, he has risen to power in a world of idiots (remember, these...