Word: claimed
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Immediately afterward, Moshe Raviv of Israel's Foreign Ministry criticized Arafat's speech as "evasive rhetoric" and repeated Israel's claim that an independent Palestinian state is an obstacle to peace...
...garage's developers, The Athenaeum Group, claim that it is not a "commercial" facility, and is thus exempt from the freeze. That group has filed a countersuit, requesting compensation for its expenses...
...union exists even for those who campaigned against it. Otherwise, HUCTW would have no legitimate claim to be the bargaining unit for all Harvard support staff. Until now, the union has made clear that is would represent all workers. In the workers' interest, it must...
...claim that Arafat's presence would endanger national security was, as put forward by the State Department, self-contradictory. It was based on an ambiguously worded U.S. law that, according to Shultz, conditions the Headquarters Agreement on a U.S. right "to safeguard its own security." Shultz's statement denying Arafat's visa asserted that P.L.O. members were excluded from the U.S. "by virtue of their affiliation in an organization which engages in terrorism." One paragraph later, the statement pointed out that since visas are routinely issued to members of the P.L.O. permanent observer mission at the U.N., Arafat's group...
Bush also met with Michael Dukakis last week, but the tone was different. Paying a loser's traditional courtesy call, Dukakis was clearly the past. Jackson offered himself as the future, and by treating him almost as an equal, Bush lent cynical credence to the claim. "This is beyond our wildest dreams," gloated a Bush assistant. "Who could ask for a better opening to the '92 re-election effort? Both sides have a vested interest in pumping up Jesse as the Democrats' leader...