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While cooperation was building mutual confidence in Jericho, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat stirred up a furor in Israel when remarks he had made at a Johannesburg mosque on May 10 were broadcast. Arafat called for a "jihad to liberate Jerusalem." Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deemed the comment a violation of the Chairman's pledge to forgo violence and threatened to stop the peace process. Arafat explained that he had used "jihad" in its general sense to mean "struggle," in this case a peaceful one, rather than "holy war," as Westerners and Israelis usually interpret the word. The Israelis reluctantly...
...Johannesburg Z-88 9-mm automatic or P-38 service pistol...
London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...Nelson Mandela last week neatly captured the country's new mood: his African National Congress bodyguards mixed easily with his white, Afrikaans-speaking government agents, exchanging black-power handshakes and chatting amiably. Three days before his inauguration, Mandela talked in Cape Town with Time deputy managing editor John Stacks, Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod and correspondent Peter Hawthorne...
...birth of a nation makes an exciting assignment for any reporter. In the case of South Africa, last week's unprecedented all-race voting created a united land out of bitterly divided fragments, and for Scott MacLeod, TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, it represented the high point of nearly five years of covering Nelson Mandela's journey from prisoner to President. "Most conflict stories we cover have tragic endings," observes MacLeod, "but what has made this a thrilling time to me is witnessing the remarkable determination here to heal divisions and achieve reconciliation...