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"We won't consider any plans like this for economic and public relations reasons," Collier said. "I'm skeptical of the benefits and quite concerned with the message it conveys," he added.
The 25-year old Ethiopian missed the 1988 Olympic marathon because his country joined North Korea's boycott of the Seoul Games. And though Mekonnen said he was happy he won yesterday, he said: "I don't consider it my Olympic race."
After the talks, Bush wound up lending qualified support to the one modestly promising part of Shamir's four-point proposal: allowing Palestinians in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate with Israel for some limited "interim" self-rule, as promised more than a decade ago in the Camp...
Shamir's proposed elections come heavily, perhaps fatally, encumbered. He said the Palestinians must first stop their violent 16-month-old uprising, the intifadeh. Shamir also refused to countenance international supervision of the balloting, despite gentle prodding from Secretary of State James Baker, and rejected direct participation by the Palestine...
Why, Johnson asks in the final episode, is wine alone among beverages considered an art? His answer: wine's amazing range of flavors, and its subtle changes while aging provide both nourishment for the body (in moderation, of course) and sustenance for the mind. Taste and experience, he urges. Many...