Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As a result of Arafat's administration, government services in many cases have deteriorated in the past year. A letter mailed within the tiny Gaza Strip now takes a week to arrive instead of two days. The phone system is a mess, because the Palestinian Authority has added twice as...
All told, though, the Gaza Strip experience has not provided much inspiration to Palestinians in the West Bank as self-rule comes their way. They are likely in any case to be disappointed by the degree of self-rule they are allowed. Among Palestinians, the widespread expectation was that after...
By avoiding disaster, Arafat has in his year of governing put an irreversible cast on the peace process and on progress toward true Palestinian independence, and that is surely a signal accomplishment. The Palestinians, however, are wondering what kind of society that independence will bring them. "I need to feel...
The emperor and empress of Japan today began a quiet pilgrimage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima to pray for the families and victims of the atomic bombings. Because former Emperor Hirohito's wartime role remains controversial, Emperor Akihito (the late emperor's son) timed the journey to miss the bombing's...
Milosevic insists that the U.S., along with Serbia, oversee the Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so...