Word: bus
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...only to further sour relations with Israel. When Washington passed word that it hoped the Israeli government would remain intact, Labor leaders denounced the bid as a "gross interference in Israel's internal affairs." When the Bush Administration described as "senseless and tragic" a Palestinian attack on % an Israeli bus two weeks ago that resulted in 14 deaths, Israeli officials were furious that the U.S. had not denounced the act as terrorism. And when a U.S. official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret contacts, Labor and Likud responded with a unified denial. This...
...steadily escalating. As in Lebanon, vigilante violence strikes innocents engaged in the most prosaic activities. As a result, people on both sides of the conflict have come to feel that even their individual survival hangs in the balance. Those who contend that the recent Palestinian attack on a bus full of civilians could be something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people." And those who dismiss...
...hard-line right of his Likud bloc, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir fettered his own plan for elections in the occupied territories with stiff conditions that seem to doom the peace initiative. Almost before the players could grasp the political implications, a fanatic Palestinian wrenched an Israeli bus over a cliff, killing 14 passengers in what was described as an act of vengeance. Those civilian deaths will only harden hearts against thoughts of peace. Once again the small steps being taken toward peace were shoved rudely backward...
...shattered diplomacy and a growing domestic political crisis were swiftly overshadowed by the violence endemic to the divided Holy Land. Only 18 hours after Shamir's announcement, an Arab fundamentalist from Gaza whose family had been wounded by Israeli soldiers grabbed the wheel of an Israeli bus as it traveled along the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway. Shouting "Allah Akbar!" (("God is great!")), he sent the bus hurtling down a 495-ft. ravine. The fiery plunge killed 14 people and wounded an additional 27. It was the worst single attack against Israelis since the start of the uprising. "This...
Hours after Israel scuttles its peace initiative, a Palestinian fanatic kills 14 in a bus disaster. -- Mexico's ruling party concedes a historic election...