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...collapsed with the Palestinian self-rule government headed by Yasser Arafat. The talks, whose importance an Arafat spokesman minimized today, began after PLO police opened fire on Hamas activists in Gaza Nov. 18, killing 15 people. The talks' failure was another setback in Arafat's efforts to gain a grip on Palestinians who oppose the Israeli peace accord. The threats -- made during a Gaza City rally today where 10,000 Hamas supporters gathered to commemorate the group's 1987 founding -- put security forces throughout Israel and the occupied territories on alert...
Israeli officials, worried that recent terrorist acts and protests have fatally weakened PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's grip on his people, began a major, three-day policy debate over whether they can pull their troops from the West Bank before Palestinian elections -- a key part of the historic 1993 Mideast peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when...
...South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, a moderate peacemaker, won election to key Senate posts today, each by a one- vote margin. Lott became Senate GOP Whip, unseating veteran Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), incoming Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who was re-elected Wednesday...
...laughing, he took hold of me and began to rub me briskly, as if I were a child, or, rather, a woman he loved and did not fear. I left myself quite limply in his hands, and, to get a better grip of me, he put his arm around me and pressed me against him, and the sweetness of the touch of our naked bodies one against the other was superb. It satisfied in some measure the vague, indecipherable yearning of my soul...
...will not be easy for any Washington politician, including the newly incumbent, to break free of the capital's grip. Even Andrew Jackson couldn't resist the privileges of power. After his people had trashed the White House, he retained three servants who had worked for his elitist predecessor -- a French chef, a steward and a butler -- and began serving the finest clarets at dinner. He also hired a painter, who promptly began immortalizing his subject in heroic oil portraits. The rest is history...