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...states, most of which are still officially at war with Israel, will have little incentive to remain hostile, since they can no longer be accused of betraying the Palestinians. Moderate Arab states such as Egypt and Morocco may still be targets for subversion and terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, crying louder than ever that their governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough for the rest...
...opinion poll last week showed that 53% of Israeli Jews supported the peace agreement, while 44% opposed it. The negative outcry in Israel was even louder among right-wing rejectionists than among the Palestinians. Having lost the last election partly on the peace issue, Likud could not do much more than shout...
...commitments have gone unfulfilled in the past, but this time hard-line Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic stood next to Karadzic and said, "Everything which is agreed will be carried out." The U.N. commander in Bosnia, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont, was still skeptical. Said he: "Actions speak louder than words." On Friday he and Mladic talked for six hours at Sarajevo airport without reaching agreement on handing Serb positions on the mountains over to U.N. peacekeepers. Briquemont said he and Mladic "did not have the same concept about conditions, control or monitoring an area...
...were going to shoot that house," says Doug, pointing down the street. "Just about now I'd cut the lights and slow down. Then bang, bang, bang, and I'd punch it out of there." The truck lurches forward. Doug turns the stereo louder...
...gave way to the gone-gone '90s, a certain swath of the press has been itching for a revival of glamorous corporate takeovers. There's no business as sexy as show business, and this summer the wishful murmurs in New York City and Los Angeles have proliferated, become louder, zanier: Bill Gates is buying Whittle Communications, Disney is buying Whittle, Paramount is buying Viacom and its MTV Networks, Ted Turner is buying a movie studio . . . And, of course, Bill Cosby is buying...