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ARAFAT has never explicitly recognized Israel. His words dance around the United Nations resolutions that include recognition of Israel. Take, for example his Geneva proposal for "a comprehensive settlement...including the state of Palestine, Israel and other neighbors, within the framework of the international conference for peace in the Middle East on the basis of Resolutions 242 and 338 and so as to guarantee equality...and respect the right to exist in peace and security...
...rural town of Lockerbie, they examined a ripped suitcase, fabric from some passenger seats and fragments from a metal bin in which checked luggage was packed and then rolled into the cargo hold of the Pan Am 747 at London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch and the FBI jointly assumed the difficult task of finding out how the bomb got on the plane...
...research and education are no substitutes for concrete action. The world community must move promptly toward comprehensive treaties to protect the air, soil and water. A framework for the effort exists within the U.N., which has already taken some important initiatives. In 1972 the U.N. organized the landmark Stockholm conference, which set up the United Nations Environment Program. It was under UNEP's sponsorship that 24 countries signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, calling for a reduction in the output of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. There have also been proposals to enhance UNEP's role as a sort of intergovernmental superagency...
...farm-policy debate overshadowed all other discussions in Montreal. Delegates were able, though, to adopt a framework for continued negotiations in the fast-growing services industries, including banking, investment and communications, which now account for some 30% of all international trade. Yet efforts to protect intellectual-property rights were stymied. The U.S. estimates that pirating and counterfeiting of such goods as tape cassettes and computer software cost American firms more than $40 billion a year...
Arafat's third point called for "a comprehensive settlement" among all parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict, including "the state of Palestine, Israel and other neighbors, within the framework of the international conference...