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JERUSALEM: But does he talk the talk? Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu today shook hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man he used to deride as a terrorist and murderer. In their first meeting, the two men discussed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, amid rumors that the United States demanded the meeting as a prerequisite for Netanyahu's trip to the United States next week. Although the two leaders settled none of the issues troubling the peace process, they did make unspecific, encouraging statements to the press. While Netanyahu praised the goal of assuring the "security and well being...
...intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While politicians in Moscow plot, there is already stress on the fragile pact: Chechens troops attacked and disarmed a Russian convoy near the Chechen capital Grozny, reportedly without inflicting a single casualty. Russian commanders demanded a return of the weapons, threatening...
...specter of cold war might be coming back? We believe the political and military leadership is to blame for pursuing a line of total camaraderie with the U.S. A strong America promised billions of dollars in support, always dictating its own conditions. They were sometimes humiliating, but Yeltsin, Foreign Minster Andrei Kozyrzev, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin accepted them without a murmur. Now Yeltsin realizes he has given away too much, too fast. He knows patriotism and a healthy nationalism will be the watchwords in the next election, so he is trying to change horses and has made a number...
Courts in Canada need to be more sensitive to the problems facing women, former Canadian Prime Minster Kim Campbell said during a symposium on violence at Agassiz House this weekend...