Word: israel
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Score one for Madeleine Albright's choreography skills. Israel and Syria will resume face-to-face peace talks next week, President Clinton announced Wednesday, after Albright's meetings with the leaders of both states. Despite sharing a will to resume negotiations, the two sides differed fundamentally over what had been agreed in previous talks, which broke off in 1996. The Syrians want Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to restate what they say was a promise by slain permier Yitzhak Rabin to hand back the captured Golan Heights in exchange for peace. Barak maintains that this was a hypothetical offer...
...sons of Nippon did not even know from coffee; all they had was green tea. Ditto the Chinese when they chased American soldiers down the Korean Peninsula. Ditto the British, who for 400 years ruled the seas while swilling Java that was as tasty as their food. Tiny Israel has bested the Arabs in five wars. And why? Because Israeli "coffee" could eat through the armor of a Soviet-built T-72 in three minutes...
...militaristic society on earth, you can now get a perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...
...Vatican criticized the Israeli decision and in a strongly worded statement accused the "political authorities [of] fomenting division." The Israeli government reacted angrily, condemning the Vatican statement and saying it was only trying to "lower tensions" between Christians and Muslims. The controversy has strained relations between Israel and the Vatican and may complicate preparations for a visit by the Pope planned for March...
...city's affirmative-action program, you have to acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...