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...Colin Powell left Ariel Sharon's Jerusalem residence last Friday afternoon and announced that four hours of talks had failed to persuade the Israeli Prime Minister to halt his military offensive in the West Bank, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman named Andaleeb Taqatqa prepared to die. Her plan was to walk into the Mahane Yehuda market in downtown Jerusalem and blow herself up during rush hour as Israelis shopped for fruits and vegetables in preparation for the Sabbath. When she arrived at the crowded bazaar just after 4 p.m., Israeli police prevented her from entering. She walked down...
...jump-start peace talks and boost American credibility with Arabs, U.S. officials tell TIME that they are thinking about dangling an international offer of diplomatic recognition for Palestine. If it helps Colin Powell coax the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations, the dramatic gesture would be valuable. But it may not have any lasting effect on two sides so hate-soaked and at odds. When Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered in February to broker Israel's peace with the Arabs in exchange for a Palestinian state, the plan was applauded as a step forward--although land-for-peace...
...roll back into the patches of territory laboriously ceded to the Palestinians since '93. The knottiest of these issues may be the two stubborn old commanders, Sharon and Arafat. Both believe that violence pays, and neither can bear the thought of negotiating with the other. There's nothing in Colin Powell's briefcase to change that...
MASSIMO CALABRESI, TIME's diplomatic correspondent, traveled last week with Colin Powell during the Secretary of State's peace mission to the Middle East...
...Alexander and now Julia Louis-Dreyfus have all failed with their own sitcoms is simple [PEOPLE, April 1]: their solo shows are nothing about something. They should have learned the cardinal rule from Jerry: something about nothing sells. Had they paid attention, they couldn't have failed to succeed! COLIN SIMON Toronto