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...Today, I come to you with a heart filled with love and peace now that the olive branch has adorned the peace of the brave." --Tonight's ARCO Forum Speaker Yasser Arafat, addressing a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday...
...designer, San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz used the symbolic number six throughout the Memorial to evoke the six million Jews killed, the six main Nazi death camps--Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinks, Majdanek, Sobibor, Chelnino and Belzes the six pointed star of David and the seven-branched Menorah, one branch missing in remembrance of the million who died...
...Exxon station men's room nearby. In downtown Phoenix, authorities foiled two men who may have been up to no good with a railroad device called a derailer. National attention focused more on notices recently posted by Amtrak announcing its intention to end direct service on the 90-mile branch line that includes Hyder and Phoenix. The sabotage, went the theory, could have been the revenge of a soon-to-be-jobless railroad worker. But that hypothesis, too, has flaws: rail-union officials say dropping the Phoenix loop would be unlikely to jeopardize the jobs of Amtrak or Southern Pacific...
...point the county offered an olive branch. Shocked by news of the bombing of Guy Pence's family van, the county called an emergency meeting and voted to offer a $100,000 reward to help find the culprit. But Nelson and Pence belittled the reward and blamed the county for helping conjure the lawless climate that led to the bombing. Stung, the county met again and unanimously withdrew the reward. "We didn't really expect gratitude," says Cameron McRae, chairman of the commission. "But we surely didn't expect to get it thrown in our faces...
Carver takes offense when critics try to link him to extremists, particularly white supremacists, and cites the fact that one branch of the Carver family helped rear George Washington Carver. "So black people are special to us," he says. He disavows fringe rhetoric but feels that as an elected official, he cannot discriminate against any audience just because its views are more extreme than his. Carver's policy: "If they pay for travel, if they give me a place to sleep, a hot dog to eat, I'll come. But I do not ally myself with any of them...