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...hold them as long as attacks continue. Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece...
...funeral cortege drove north toward the Israeli settlement of Itamar to bury a resident killed by Palestinian gunmen in an ambush. Nitza Tzameret was in the third car in the procession, behind an army-jeep escort. When the vehicles approached the Palestinian village of Kafr Khalil, shots rang out. The cars halted, and the terrified mourners poured out. Tzameret and her husband lay in a ditch at the roadside as Israeli soldiers returned fire up into the olive groves. The gun battle lasted 30 minutes. Since then Tzameret has slept no more than two hours a night, fearing intruders...
...That's when Peres jumped in. A vigorous advocate of the joint economic projects, he instructed Itamar Rabinovich, Israel's ambassador in Washington, to press on with the State Department. Peres himself met with Ross and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, to plead the case in person, the memo says...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Itamar Rabinovich, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, Chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Ethan M. Tucker '97 and Eliezer Ya'Ari, a fellow in the Wesner-Israel Fellowship program, spoke at the forum...
...Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna would be mourned officially for three days, declared President Itamar Franco. On the flight home from Europe, Senna's coffin, curtained off in the business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came up and knelt beside it in prayer. Later, as he was being laid to rest in Morumbi cemetery, planes of the Brazilian air force twisted...