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...that began with historic addresses to Congress by the leaders of Jordan and Israeli ended with joint condemnations of a terrorist bombing of Israel's London embassy. Israeli officials said the bombing, in which explosives in a parked car injured 15 people, was another sign of an all-out war by Islamic fundamentalists against the peace process. But the attack failed to overshadow the unprecedented appearances before Congress. Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin drew whoops and standing ovations from U.S. lawmakers by vowing to make their peace agreement work at home. The show doesn...
Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein will meet publicly for the first time next week in Washington, President Clinton announced, to push ahead with peace agreements between the two sides. The leaders will address a joint session of Congress and be guests of honor at a White House dinner. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meanwhile were meeting in Cairo to discuss expanding Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank beyond the town of Jericho, and other security issues...
...prefrontal cortex, it is where reason is applied to complex social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap. For it was just such a rupture that led the researchers to their discovery...
...holes before the Triton Energy Corp. of Dallas staked a claim in the mid-'80s. Because Triton lacked the capital to explore the area, it sold an 80% share to British Petroleum, which took in France's Total as an equal partner. Today the consortium is part of a joint venture with the state oil company, Ecopetrol, which is developing an estimated 2 billion bbl. in Cusiana and the neighboring Cupiagua field. That could be just the beginning: the partners' plan to invest $6 billion over the next 40 months to bring in Cusiana and explore other sites...
Forty-five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to combat the Soviet threat, Russia joined NATO'S Partnership for Peace. Although NATO'S security umbrella does not cover the partnership's 21 members, mainly countries formerly in the East Bloc, it allows them to hold joint military exercises with NATO forces. Meanwhile, Russia and the U.S. also announced that President Boris Yeltsin and President Clinton will hold a summit in Washington in late September. And in a cementing of relations with other Western allies, Yeltsin signed a trade treaty with the European Union. The deal involves...