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...Jericho, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat stirred up a furor in Israel when remarks he had made at a Johannesburg mosque on May 10 were broadcast. Arafat called for a "jihad to liberate Jerusalem." Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deemed the comment a violation of the Chairman's pledge to forgo violence and threatened to stop the peace process. Arafat explained that he had used "jihad" in its general sense to mean "struggle," in this case a peaceful one, rather than "holy war," as Westerners and Israelis usually interpret the word. The Israelis reluctantly accepted his explanation and continued discussions...
...waiting to see whether Pyongyang backs down. Some analysts are sure the end of the diplomatic road has already been reached. They argue that the regime and especially its unproved heir apparent, Kim Jong Il, view an atomic program as the trump card of their credibility and will not forgo it for anything. Other experts think Pyongyang might eventually give up its nuclear dream, but only in exchange for massive economic aid, a guarantee of Western support for Kim Jong Il's succession and a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the South -- concessions neither Seoul nor Washington will accept...
...called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which had no basis in my text or in my head. He said he believed me. But, clearly, he didn't believe me enough to forgo writing a letter to The Crimson (December 10), and what a letter! The letter compares me to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the hoariest of gambits to try to shut someone up, but an insidious gambit, nonetheless...
...dealing has some Republicans who favor NAFTA hinting that they might bolt. Last Friday Representative Tom Ewing of Illinois asked Clinton to forgo a new $5-a-seat tax on overseas air travel to help offset lost tariff revenues. New taxes, said Ewing, could be NAFTA's "death knell...
Some students suggested that the honor is the result of one particularly scandalous incident which occurred in the courtyard last spring, when one couple decided to forgo modesty...