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...that has ethicists worried. As scientists fill in knowledge about the genes of personality, will employers and insurers use genetic work-ups to deny jobs to those inclined to love thrills? Will parents demand prenatal testing to weed out children who have the "wrong" personality genes? "They are big issues," admits Dr. Richard Ebstein, a molecular biologist who led the research team at Jerusalem's S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, "and they will come...
...rebels now demand that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...
...aren't going to start frontal attacks, or act according to an eye-for-an-eye principle, since we feel convinced that death only brings death," he said. "But the bandits and the terrorists will be punished." The Prime Minister added that Russia would never meet the separatists' longstanding demand for independence: "Chechnya is Russia." Reports that the rebels killed several hostages before boarding the buses are so far unconfirmed...
...going to ask this sort of participation in the future," he said. Dispute over the Golan, which Israel wrested from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war, has stymied peace efforts between the two countries. Israel may now be ready to go along with Syria's demand to withdraw, but wants to ensure the safety of Israelis there. A multinational force, Peres said optimistically, would deter Syrian terrorism and reassure Israelis following a peace agreement. "This force, if deployed, will probably get more opposition from American isolationists than from anyone in the Golan," notes Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But the mission...
...going to ask this sort of participation in the future," he said. Dispute over the Golan, which Israel wrested from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war, has stymied peace efforts between the two countries. Israel may now be ready to go along with Syria's demand to withdraw, but wants to ensure the safety of Israelis there. A multinational force, Peres said optimistically, would deter Syrian terrorism and reassure Israelis following a peace agreement. "This force, if deployed, will probably get more opposition from American isolationists than from anyone in the Golan," notes Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But the mission...