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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to allow Palestinians with jobs in Israel to re-enter the country in stages, ending a bitter standoff with the PLO. After meeting with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Rabin said he would gradually lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and permit 15,000 Palestinian workers to return to their jobs next week. Arafat, in turn, set up a special military court to try suspected anti-Israel militants. He also arrested eight supporters of Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for a Jan. 22 bombing that killed 21 Israelis and prompted...
...peace summitonly plunged relations deeper into crisis, as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat failed to agree on any way to expand Palestinian authority without endangering Israeli security. After 2 1/2 hours of talks, a visibly angry Arafat lashed out at Rabin's refusal to lift a 19-day closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, imposed after militant Islamic Jihad bombers killed 21 Israelis last month. "If there is an Israeli wish for political separation, then we welcome it. But we will not welcome that they lock us in Gaza and the West Bank...
This memorial was so conceived that each day of the year, school children and civic leaders alike can come and speak of peace and understanding. We have joined to honor a fallen patriot who helped lift the burden of sanctioned bigotry from one group and the burden of hypocrisy from another. To combat the bigotry and hypocrisy that remain we must challenge ourselves to be so dedicated. At this memorial, our citizens can pledge themselves to the unfinished causes of peace and freedom that King so nobly advanced...
...outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully as she has the other characters, and the reader never fully understands what it is about this girl that so deeply touches the Iris family. But angels are supposed to be a mysterious breed, and despite...
Pentagon officials believe the Vietnamese wanted to break the impasse with Washington over the missing service members in order to get the U.S. to lift its trade embargo but had backed themselves into a corner with their earlier declarations that no prisoner records existed. McConnell suggests that Hanoi needed an unofficial way to turn over the material and saw Schweitzer as a ``face-saving conduit...