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Tiny Nations Air has never had an accident or a safety-related operating incident in its 15 months as a scheduled airline between Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Nor will it. Last week Nations Air became a charter airline, having become the first business casualty of the May 11 crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades. Skittish consumers canceled 40% of the airline's reservations, leaving CEO Mark McDonald with little choice but to fly for hire...
...Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Contrary to the claim of the authors that the sole aim of the Hezbollah aggression in Southern Lebanon is "to end the Israeli occupation of their country" (which country, Iran?), the motives of the so-called "Party of God" as declared in their 1985 charter are "not limited to the [Israeli Army] presence in Lebanon" but rather include "the complete destruction of the State of Israel...
...glass of Yardin champagne. Israelis consider this their finest drink, and Peres was convinced that nothing but the best would do, given what was about to occur. Earlier in the week, he had seen his peacemaking stance with the Palestinians pay off when the P.L.O. changed its charter, removing passages that denied Israel's right to exist. Now, the Prime Minister had a settlement to celebrate on a second front. He and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher were preparing to announce that Grapes of Wrath, the blitzkrieg with which Israel had pounded Lebanon for 16 days, would soon...
...hoped today's pact will conclude "a history of bloodshed." The agreement was signed just one day before a scheduled White House visit from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Clinton said he would commend Arafat for last week's vote by the Palestine National Council to remove language in its charter that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Peres also had praise for the PLO for its anti-terrorist efforts: "We have to encourage the winds of peace to retract the shadows of danger...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The Palestinian National Council voted Wednesday to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel from its charter. The 504-54 vote is a major victory for PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who won clear backing to continue peace negotiations with Israel despite the Israeli's closing of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank that anti-Israel sentiment is running high in the wake of Israel's closing of the two Palestinian areas after a string of suicide bombings in February and March. "The economy is in very...