Word: channeler
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...historic peace agreement with the Palestinians. The Army chief of staff who led the Israeli forces to a remarkable victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Rabin later served as Ambassador to the United States before being elected Prime Minister in 1974. In 1975, he established a back-channel communication with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, seeking a way to make peace, an effort that would bear fruit 19 years later. After serving as Israel's defense minister from 1984 to 1990, Rabin was reelected Prime Minister in 1992. "There are no good wars," Rabin wrote in his memoirs. Jerusalem Bureau...
Perera, whose experience in the area of television includes working for the Australian network channel seven, has begun planning the show although the first organizational meeting will not be held until October...
...live via closed-circuit television to the Wiener Auditorium at the Kennedy School, Austin North at the Law School and Piper Auditorium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. No tickets are necessary to attend these screenings. The forum will also be televised live on New England Cable News (channel 26 in Cambridge...
...last week. Rotblat refocused his scientific attention on possible medical uses of nuclear reactions and radiation; he also began his lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament. The Pugwash organization was considered especially influential during the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan began pushing his Star Wars program; it gave scientists an unofficial channel through which to discuss the tricky arms-reduction issues raised by Reagan's plan...
...Democratic assault on the G.O.P.'s plans for a Medicare overhaul continued unabated. Attacking hearings on the subject as inadequate, rushed and stacked, Democrats walked out of a House Commerce Committee session devoted to the G.O.P.'s proposal, which seeks to channel more seniors into private insurance and HMO plans. Senate Democrats unveiled an alternate plan that they said would keep the current system intact and save $89 billion, a third of the sum advocated by Republicans...