Word: crackdown
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...security issues." An Albright visit was held out to the Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue. If it can be effected by her presence, we want that. If it can't be, we sympathize with her efforts." As the week ended, Netanyahu made...
BEIJING: As President Jiang Zemin sells his privatization plan to the Communist Party Congress, former premier Zhao Ziyang is causing more headaches for hard-liners by calling for a reassessment of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. The appeal is part of a bid for political rehabilitation by Zhao, who was purged following the massacre for his soft stance toward the protesters, and always maintained that Tiananmen Square was a mistake...
...part of the crackdown, CPD has attempted to educate bicyclists by distributing brochures throughout public schools, the police station, bicycle stores and Cambridge's City Hall...
...This trip is a Sisyphean climb for a diplomat, and the path is well-worn by her predecessors. Tomorrow Albright meets with Arafat, presumably to insist once again on a security crackdown. One can only hope she can charm him as easily as she does Jesse Helms...