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...West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat was the threat of sending Israeli forces "to any corner" to track down terrorists--in other words, back into areas now under Arafat's control. That would be an outright violation of the accords and would destroy Arafat's credibility with his supporters...
REPUBLICANS IN 1996 APPEAR TO BE doing what Democrats did in 1968: allowing extremism to fracture and damage their party. We don't need extremists who want to destroy America to save it. We need some real Republicans to speak out and try to prevent their party from becoming terminal. PRESTON P. BIRENBAUM Woodland Hills, California...
...born of the inability to protect those we love--Megan, the young girl whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...
...debate over whether to suspend military operations and focus on taking a share of the power now available under self-rule. Hamas has always been principally a political organization, delivering medical, educational, religious and welfare services to the public. The notion was to await a better day to destroy Israel and meanwhile participate in the game. Then Israel killed Ayyash by planting a bomb in his mobile telephone. That gave the hard-liners what they saw as justification to act. They were moved not only by vengeful anger but by the desire to prove that Ayyash's demise...
MISSING FROM YOUR ARTICLE ON PLANS to destroy the U.S.'s decaying stockpiles of chemical weapons [NATION, Feb. 12] was coverage of the concerned citizens in affected communities who have been active on this issue for 12 years. The Chemical Weapons Working Group is an international coalition of citizens' groups in the U.S., the Pacific area and Russia that are working together to advocate safe disposal of these hideous weapons. The Army has the capability today to eliminate the risk of continued storage of its aging, leaky M-55 rockets by draining the nerve agent from them and storing...