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...peace process among his own people. The slaughter in the mosque only made things much worse: some of the subsequent rioting and demonstrations took a sharply anti-Arafat as well as anti-Israeli tone. When Faisal Husseini, the head of the West Bank division of Fatah, Arafat's own faction, visited the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem, Palestinian mobs stoned him until he was forced to leave. They chanted, "Arafat is a bastard!" or "Arafat is a Jew!" In Lebanon, Munir Magdah, a former Fatah leader, urged Arafat to commit suicide...
MacArthur said that the media also failed to cover adequately the U.S. intervention in Somalia. Only foreign photographers took pictures of the mutilation of American corpses after the failed kidnapping attempt of faction leader General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, MacArthur said...
Those in the no-compromise faction that surrounds the First Lady calculate that they don't need Cooper to make the Clinton plan fly. Instead they are wooing the estimated 90 members of Congress, most of them liberals, who favor , a Canadian-style, single-payer system. This official calculates prematurely -- and improbably -- that with those votes, the Clinton plan is just 30 votes shy of passing. But in trolling for those votes, the Administration does not want to continue giving free publicity to Cooper by campaigning against his plan...
...sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto Rico's soul and destruction of its economy. They also argue that the vote is moot in any case: the U.S. Congress will find a way to reject a poor, Spanish-speaking land that would enter the Union with a secessionist faction. If statehood wins with only a small majority, Congress may find ways to delay confronting the question of union for years...
...only candidate who is not heldhostage by a certain faction of the council,"McKay said in reference to disputes last yearwhich surfaced between Beys and member Hillary K.Anger '93-94, which involved many of theirrespective friends on the council...