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...Prime Minister Netanyahu's new resolve. In a joint announcement, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said that bilateral committees will attempt to get the process moving again after a four-month interruption. In the wake of Friday's near-meltdown over the Jerusalem mayor's plans to allow a new settlement on disputed land, Benjamin Netanyahu's tough response put the talks back into motion. "The Prime Minister was very clear about saying said he would do his best to prevent the project," said TIME's Lisa Beyer in Jerusalem. "That really helped." TIME...
...Chief Richard Barreto said his department wants to be sure that Carreira did not have any way of knowing that Cunanan was there before he reported seeing him. Paul Philip, the FBI's agent in charge in Miami, feels Carreira deserves his agency's $10,000 reward. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is still holding back his $10,000 because Cunanan was not arrested or convicted, the usual condition of such rewards. Miami may be the next to pay up, given Monday's release of a highly unflattering 911 tape showing that local police were slow to respond...
...Mayor of Cambridge Sheila Doyle Russell spoke of the need to fight hunger around the world in order to achieve "full realization of humanity's potential." Robinson will bolster the fight against hunger when she assumes her new post as United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Russell said...
Other Cantabrigians who supported the memorial included City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and mayor emeritus Walter Sullivan. Reeves stressed at the hearings the importance of the United States' openness to immigration and the injustice of starvation in a world with plenty of food which the memorial represents...
JERUSALEM: There is no faster killer of Middle East peace than a housing settlement. Which is why nearly every major player in the process was furious at Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert's decision to award a building permit for an Arab neighborhood to Miami millionaire Irving Moscowitz without letting any of them in on it. "Those two tried to pull a fast one," says TIME's Lisa Beyer in Jerusalem. "Moscowitz and Olmert are both intent on this for ideological reasons, and they don't feel they need anyone's permission." Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had his share of trouble...