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...terms of peace he has in mind--full Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem, retention of most Jewish settlements, and control over the strategic Jordan Valley--will be acceptable to many Palestinians. Palestinians also charge that Sharon prompted the latest uprising by his heavily-guarded September visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Whether or not the responsibility for the recent violence lies with Sharon, the distrust he has gained in the Arab world will make any rapprochement with Palestinians or neighboring Arab nations difficult...
...effectively ceded some 40 percent of the country to the rebels by ordering the military to stay out of a 16,200-square-mile "safe haven." But while there's been little progress toward a negotiated settlement, the "safe haven" has become a base for the guerrillas to mount new attacks elsewhere in the country, and to keep kidnap victims and other prisoners. That has the military pressing Pastrana to dispense with his "safe haven" order. In addition, there has been little public enthusiasm for a Pastrana proposal to declare a second safe haven elsewhere in Colombia to be occupied...
...Black Bears (10-11-1, 5-10-1) were unable to mount any substantial attack on the Crimson...
...second front to the campaign: Sharon had to beat off a possible resurrection of Netanyahu, who was itching to return to politics after being cleared of corruption charges. That two-front struggle was captured in the most famous walk Sharon will probably ever make--his tour of the Temple Mount at the end of September. It was a maneuver designed to take the hard-line limelight from Netanyahu by asserting Israeli sovereignty over a site that is also claimed by Arafat. Yet Sharon also cast it as a move intended to show his faith that Jews and Muslims could live...
Robert N. Butler is president of the International Longevity Center and professor of geriatrics at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine