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...this meeting is that it took place," reports TIME's Eric Silver. "They broke the ice. It was successful in that they both shook hands warmly and seemed to have a good rapport." After Tuesday's meeting, Silver says, the Likud will have no excuses for sending relatively low-level officials for further negotiations with the Palestinians or for not resuming the negotiations even though nothing substantive came out of the meeting. "There was no progress on setting a date for the Israeli redeployment from Hebron or resuming negotiations on the interim or permanent status agreements," says Silver. The Hebron...
That is not what voters would ordinarily hear from the White House during an election campaign. Presidential aides, however, stuck doggedly to just that line in trying to explain the concededly inexcusable White House request for secret FBI files on some 700 people, mostly low-level workers in the Reagan and Bush administrations but also including prominent Republicans...
Thus on Saturday, April 20, Secretary of State Warren Christopher landed in Jerusalem. His objective was to put a stop to the killing immediately, and then lash together a new, written version of the 1993 ground rules governing the low-level war the Israeli army and Hizballah are waging in and around the "security zone" that Israel occupies in south Lebanon...
...Teng-hui's convincing win in Saturday's elections, Taiwan announced a plan today to ease its 47 year-old ban on direct trade with China. Taiwan Economic Minister Chiang Pin-kung will submit the proposal to the Taiwanese legislature sometime in June. China and Taiwan had been conducting low-level talks on economic cooperation last summer when China suspended them after Lee visited the United States -- a move Beijing viewed as a play towards seeking international recognition of Taiwan as a nation. Lee said he wants to seek stability for the island, which has seen its economy hurt...
...always been the poor man's cocaine. Like coke, it can be smoked, snorted or injected, but "it's much cheaper and it gives people a longer high," notes Ed Mayer, head of the Jackson County, Oregon, Narcotics Enforcement Team. For decades, its manufacture and distribution was a low-level enterprise dominated by motorcycle gangs. The current surge is driven by powerful Mexican syndicates, which have found that meth offers far greater profit margins than cocaine or heroin...