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...annexes of the Declaration of Principles indicate that they are firmly intended to lead to some final political settlement. The document has been painstakingly drafted, covering -- at least in outline -- the most sensitive concerns of both sides. It provides, first of all, for ! Israeli withdrawal from the 140-sq.-mi. Gaza Strip, with its 770,000 Palestinians, and from Jericho, an ancient, somnolent Jordan Valley town of about 20,000, a thin sliver of the 1 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank...
...years Brazilian gold miners have been pressing to prospect on the 37,000- sq.-mi. homeland of the Yanomami Indians. Rebuffed by the Brazilian government, which has sent police to break up their encampments, the miners apparently have turned to murderous violence against the Yanomami. In the worst outbreak to date, miners massacred more than 30 members of the tribe last week, including 10 children, some of whom were decapitated by machetes. International outcry over the killings could lead to trouble for Brazil in its requests for loans from international lenders...
Finally, on the afternoon of his 47th birthday, seven months after he took the oath of office, the President came to rest on a New England island so small it has no traffic lights. Martha's Vineyard, a 100-sq.-mi. haven of quaint shingled houses, quiet country gardens, yacht-studded harbors and stunning beaches, has many attributes to recommend it, not the least of which is that its inhabitants are sufficiently celebrity-trained so that no one stares into opera diva Beverly Sills' grocery cart at Cronig's or gawks at Jackie Onassis riding her bike near her house...
...week heavy rain returned to much of the area, causing still more flooding. "We are going to have another crest coming down," said Larry Crump, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman at Kansas City, Missouri. So far, the flood has killed at least 40 people, submerged 16,000 sq. mi. of farmland and caused $10 billion in damage...
...even with few or no additions, the Great Flood of '93 is already one of the all-time monsters. It might go down as the worst of all in the U.S. by many measures: height of flood crest, area inundated (close to 17,000 sq. mi., vs. 12,700 in the awesome flood of 1937 along many of the same rivers) and property damage. Government estimates skyrocketed in little more than a week from $500 million to as much as $8 billion, and the final tally might be higher still...