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...Against Sexual Violence (CASV) in 1998 in response to the University’s poor handling of two separate instances of rape perpetrated by members of the Harvard student body. Angry and concerned, over 300 members of the Harvard community rallied outside University Hall to demand that the University expel the guilty students, provide preventative education on sexual violence and improve its survivor resources and Administrative Board procedures. That was five years...
Within hours of the attack, Israel fired missiles at targets in the Gaza Strip connected to the radical group Hamas, and attacked what it said was an Islamic Jihad training base in Syria. Several Israeli Cabinet ministers again urged Sharon to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the West Bank. Arafat, for his part, condemned the suicide bombing. But Israel's impatience with the continued violence has left Arafat's fate, along with that of peace talks, hanging by an ever more precarious thread. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Matt Rees/Jerusalem
...standpoint. Israel has until now insisted that if Arafat leaves his compound, he'd be on a one-way ticket out of the West Bank. And each new terror attack brings renewed public and political pressure on Sharon to make good on his cabinet's in-principle decision to expel the Palestinian leader. But Arafat has vowed to go down fighting against any attempt to remove him from the compound, and the Bush administration has restrained Israel from carrying out the threatened expulsion, on the grounds that such a move would be "unhelpful" to the pursuit of stability. The Palestinian...
Arafat's public standing has been elevated by Israel's latest effort to neutralize him--the Cabinet announced this month that it intends "in principle" to expel him. Muqata'a insiders say Arafat is making the most of the situation. Having engineered the ouster of his rival, Mahmoud Abbas, the Prime Minister handpicked by the U.S. to supplant him, Arafat last week reasserted his claim as the undisputed leader of the Palestinians and positioned himself to control the makeup and direction of the new government of the Palestinian Authority, headed by Abbas' replacement, Ahmed Qurei. In a meeting with Fatah...
These same countervailing forces are at play in Islamabad's relations with militants fighting to expel India from the part of Muslim-majority Kashmir that it occupies. The militants' cause is popular within the Pakistani security forces and among Pakistanis in general. After India and Pakistan, both nuclear armed, nearly went to war over the conflict in May 2002, Musharraf assured Bush that there were no militant training camps in Pakistani territory. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage reminded Musharraf of that guarantee when the two met in the northern city of Rawalpindi before Musharraf's last meeting with Bush...