Word: jerusalem
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Thus on Saturday, April 20, Secretary of State Warren Christopher landed in Jerusalem. His objective was to put a stop to the killing immediately, and then lash together a new, written version of the 1993 ground rules governing the low-level war the Israeli army and Hizballah are waging in and around the "security zone" that Israel occupies in south Lebanon...
...pace has hardly slowed for our Jerusalem bureau since then. Faced with a bloody war on the Lebanon border and, later, a tentative cease-fire, Beyer had to cancel her plans to fly to New York to receive the Overseas Press Club award last Thursday...
...Saturday had promised to be a quiet one. Most of the magazine was already put to bed, and our skeletal weekend crew was wrapping up the last details when jolting news arrived from Jerusalem at 2 p.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. That bulletin last November, which soon plunged Israel into mourning, sent the TIME staff into overdrive. Over the next 28 hours, correspondents on three continents pulled together the details of the assassination, while writers in New York City wove their dispatches into polished stories. It was a classic example of what is sometimes called group...
...particularly proud of this award, given the circumstances under which it was earned. In Jerusalem senior foreign correspondent (and acting bureau chief) Johanna McGeary was visiting with journalist friends at 9 p.m. Israeli time when she heard the news. She raced to the bureau, making calls on her cell phone all the way. By the time she reached the office, she says, "everybody was mobilized...
...JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Shimon Peres will decide within in a week whether to proceed with the withdrawal of troops from the West Bank town of Hebron. The pullback, which was supposed to have begun in March, was put on hold after suicide bombings that killed 63. Worried about recent warnings of terrorist attacks by groups opposed to the peace process with the Palestinians, Peres has said he might consider postponing the withdrawal. A might be the politically smart thing to do as elections approach, says Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer: "The pullout from Hebron is certainly going to entail...