Word: israel
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...bombers' object, though, is also to frighten: to scare Israelis, Palestinians and Washington into giving up the process of reconciliation begun four years ago. Security officials in Israel and the U.S. had been bracing for some kind of terrorist strike before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright embarked on her first Middle East mission this week. Security had been beefed up on Ben Yehuda Street, one of three popular public areas the Israelis had specifically suspected might be hit. Yet the suicide bombers demonstrated once again that they could strike at will, reopening the cycle of violence and punishment that...
...TIME Daily) ... An angry Senator Jesse Helms resists attempts to force a hearing over William Weld?s ambassador nomination (AllPolitics) ... A federal judge rules American Airlines is liable for compensatory damages because its pilots were negligent in a deadly 1995 Colombia crash (Reuters) ... U.S. Secretary of State Albright urges Israel and the PLO to end their verbal sparring and give peace a chance (Reuters) ... Christian Coalition returns to its roots (TIME Daily) ... China's Hong Kong chief can't convince Washington it's business as usual in former British colony (TIME Daily) ... Retail sales figures released Friday by the Commerce...
While violence tightens the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there appears to be some progress on the Israel-Syria front (TIME Daily) ... The Democratic Party's top lawyer has defended Al Gore's controversial White House fundraising phone calls (AllPolitics) ... A budget bill provision that was effectively funding the tobacco industry has been struck down (TIME Daily) ...Rocky Actor Burgess Meredith has died at the age of 89 (TIME Daily) ... Former Clinton cabinet member Mike Espy has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges ... (Reuters) ... As for Clinton himself, what has he learned in four-and-a-half years about...
PARIS: While violence has tightened the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, it appears that the U.S. may have prodded progress in Israel's relations with Syria, just in time for Secretary of State Albright's Middle East mission. "It would make sense that the U.S. did a lot of head-butting to make sure she isn't embarrassed," says TIME Middle East reporter Scott MacLeod, responding to reports that a top advisor to Israel?s Prime Minister Netanyahu met somewhere in Europe Tuesday with a Syrian counterpart ? reports denied by Israel...
...Israel-Syria track of the Middle East peace process skidded to a halt in May 1996, when Netanyahu came to power and swore never to meet Syria's chief condition for peace: Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. But after a particularly brutal year for Israeli forces patrolling its self-declared "security zone" in south Lebanon ? where Syria has sufficient influence to damp down anti-Israeli activities ? there may be some room for negotiation...