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...explicitly linked continued concessions to the Palestinian Authority's success in breaking the Islamists. He has also indefinitely sealed Israel's borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip--a measure that costs Palestinians $1.2 million daily in lost earnings. With few exceptions, P.A. officials, including Arafat, were forbidden to travel into Israel or through it to get between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. "Arafat is now a prisoner in Gaza," says an Israeli Defense Ministry official. "He can't get to the West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat...
...weeks ago, Abdul-Rauf's behavior began to cause conflict with the Nuggets and with the league administration. Abdul-Rauf said that he would not stand for the national anthem because it represented "oppression" and "tyranny." Also, as a devout Muslim, he said that he was forbidden from paying homage to nationalistic symbols such as the U.S. flag...
Next week Adams travels to the U.S. for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Last year he was invited to the White House, but this year his reception in Washington will be low-key. The Clinton Administration has forbidden him to raise funds. Until he has succeeded in leading his friends in the I.R.A. down the road to peace, Adams will remain--as Seamus Mallon suggests--quite isolated...
Investment in Burma is not PepsiCo's only offense. In 1994 Greenpeace reported that PepsiCo was shipping discarded plastic bottles from California to India--bottles with the "California Redemption Value" labels still visible. International trade in plastic wastes is forbidden by Indian law and international law. PepsiCo claims, however, that the bottles are all recycled and thus it is not waste. An Indian recycling firm does take the bottles and some are recycled, amidst working conditions far below US standards. But they admit that much of the plastic is nonrecyclable; the toxic byproducts of the process stay in India, while...
...challenges from the networks are expected to extend that further), and there are still all those chipless RCAs and Sonys currently in people's living rooms. Every set in the house would have to have the V chip, or else kids could just go into the bedroom to watch forbidden shows. Some critics warn, moreover, that it's only a matter of time before kids learn how to break the code and counteract the blocking mechanism...