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Voting in the midterm elections was still a few days away, but Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island was already feeling lonesome for the old gang. Surveying the voluntary departures of such Senate moderates as Minnesota's David Durenberger and Missouri's John Danforth as well as worrying about...
South Korea today announced that it wants to do business with its one-time arch enemy and neighbor to the north. The South Korean government says it's lifting a 50-year-old ban on direct trade with and investment in North Korea because of theOctober nuke deal brokered by...
Two leaders of Hamas -- the militant Islamic group opposed to the Israeli-PLO accord and responsible forthree serious attacks on Israelislast month -- today said they wanted to open a dialogue with the Jewish state. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin immediately snubbed the first-ever offer, calling Hamas "the enemy of...
With control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the Democrats should be able to pass bills much more easily than gall stones. The trouble comes when a few moderates decide to balance the scales.
Yasser Arafat is in a tighter pinch. Hamas rejects any settlement with Israel, and is aiming its fire as much at the P.L.O. leader as Rabin. Arafat is increasingly caught between Israeli demands that he crack down on the militants and his constituents' aversion to an inter-Palestinian fight. Even...