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...comprehensive peace in the Middle East would be at hand. But after five hours of discussion, Moussa emerged to read out a predictable communique. It mainly restated their commitment to peace and condemned ``all the outbreaks of bloodshed, terror and violence'' that have brought the negotiations almost to a halt. The one visible new agreement was to keep on talking...
...nice sentiment, but I don't think that a child growing up in a poor, crime-ridden ghetto would buy it. Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some...
...continued killing of Israelis inside the pre-1967 borders is especially damaging. No less a figure than President Ezer Weizman called for a halt in the implementation of the peace accords. It was a stunning pronouncement coming from so dovish a leader. Though several members of Rabin's Cabinet quietly backed the suggestion, the Prime Minister ignored it and insisted that the process of establishing Palestinian self-rule would go on. But his aides are skittish about the prospects for progress. Said Uri Savir, director-general of the Foreign Ministry: ``We need a profound change of direction to make...
...goes to the Senate, where it faces a more uncertain fate. The Senate, meanwhile, approved by a bipartisan vote of 86 to 10 a bill restricting the power of Congress to impose unfunded mandates upon the states. The Simpson Case The extraordinary O.J. Simpson murder trial ground to a halt, as prosecution objections and vitriolic exchanges between opposing attorneys interrupted opening arguments and sent Judge Lance Ito scurrying to his chambers to sort things out. The disruption occurred when prosecutors accused defense attorneys of telling the jury about witnesses and witness statements they had not disclosed to prosecutors, a possible...
...could have grave consequences for the Mexicans, for Latin America, for the entire developing world,'' warned President Clinton, who got support from both the Democratic and Republican leadership as well as from Wall Street and the always cautious Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan urged Congress ``to halt the erosion in Mexico's financial capabilities before it has dramatic impacts far beyond those already evidenced around the world...