Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer, 'O.K. if I go to Jerusalem?'...Privately he admits that Israel is probably there to stay." --April...
...relic hunting, by definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...
...JERUSALEM: Bolstered by Wednesday's multinational security conference, President Clinton today pledged more than $100 million to Israel to help combat terrorism. Clinton also promised stronger security ties with Israel as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres one day after 28 world leaders gathered in Egypt for an unprecedented summit against terrorism. Clinton acknowledged that stopping suicide bombers who have terrorized Israel since Feb. 25, is a near impossible task. "You couldn't do it before the meeting and we can't do it in six months time," Clinton said. "I wish I had it in my power...
...worst spasm of violence since the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord of September 1993. Citizens of Jerusalem were only just recovering from the city's first explosion when news broke of the second on the very same bus line--No. 18. Many wondered how the peace process could go on. Israeli President Ezer Weizman said, "It can't continue this way. We have to really stop and think...
...assassination two months ago of Yehia Ayyash--or "the Engineer," as he was known--the organization's master bombmaker. Yet when the fury burst forth, its savagery was stunning. First, in two explosions spaced 45 min. apart, Hamas suicide-bombers claimed 26 victims, first on a bus in Jerusalem, then at a hitchhiking post outside coastal Ashkelon. Then, exactly seven days later, the militants struck again, eviscerating another bus in central Jerusalem, this time killing at least...