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Meeting at a joint Israeli-p.l.o. command post inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
...Skeptics insist the real problem with the law is that most criminals bypass gun shops in favor of underground dealers. ``It's easy for the criminal to get a gun,'' scoffs Dent Myers, who owns a Civil War surplus store in Kennesaw, Georgia, where the town council passed a law last year obliging every head of household to own a gun. ``They don't go to the store, because the waiting period for an illegal gun is about five minutes--or as long as it takes to open up a trunk...
...moms, may see few options besides aborting their child, particularly if there is a prohibition on increasing benefits for additional children born to women who are already welfare recipients,'' says Patricia King, policy adviser for health and welfare issues for the U.S. Catholic Conference. And even those conservatives who insist that private charities can help fill the void left by welfare acknowledge that existing facilities must be dramatically expanded...
...militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted the border closing. "By the current low threshold of expectation, it''s progress ? almost a breakthrough," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis insist that Arafat at least make an effort (to round up terrorists), and this is his reward...
Manning strains credulity, though, when he sayshe "knows nothing" about employees like Pedro whoare working long hours with no overtime pay. Thelabor relations director is a smart man who rarelymisses a trick. And if he didn't know aboutsomething, it's likely that Conway would tell him.Several sources insist the Harvard labor relationsofficial and the 254 business agent are close...