Word: gaza
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That may sound like a strange observation at a time when Arafat looks poised to win an expansion of his authority. For the past year the Palestinians have enjoyed limited self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho. Now negotiators are scrambling to meet this week's deadline for an accord that would detail a timetable for Palestinian elections as well as a redeployment of the Israeli army in the West Bank. The original deadline for the new agreement was July 1, but that slipped to July 25 and may slip again. The killing last...
...Mousa Abu Marzuk, a Palestinian businessman detained in New York Thursday. U.S. officials claim he is a senior leader of the militant group Hamas. Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for several bombings in Israel, quickly warned the U.S. against turning him over. A Hamas leaflet issued in the Gaza Strip today demanded the immediate release of Abu Marzuk, saying his detention would "add to the Arab and Muslim anger that is raging against the U.S. hostile policies." Marzuk was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City as he returned from a two-month trip abroad. Leaders...
...French hospital? "Our child was conceived in Gaza, but sanitary conditions are so appalling I was afraid to deliver there," Mrs. Arafat said after the birth. "Not for me, but for the baby. That's a mother's natural reaction...
...this presidential campaign, they will be spending less time plying the pine-smelling living rooms of New Hampshire or enjoying the watery coffee of Iowa diners. Instead, they will be tramping through the fevered political swamp of Florida, where they will have to contend with issues like Fidel, the Gaza Strip and Medicare, Part B. That's because, now that Senator Robert Dole has spooked his opponents into believing he's invincible on the early New England and Midwestern turf, Florida -- with its Hispanic, Jewish and elderly voting blocs -- is emerging as the must-win primary state...
...WITH REPORTING BY JAMIL HAMAD/ GAZA CITY AND ERIC SILVER/JERUSALEM