Word: movement
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...Hawatmeh, leaders of radical Damascus-based Palestinian guerrilla factions opposed to the peace process. Syria has ordered Habash and Hawatmeh to end their armed struggle as it prepares to negotiate its own peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They'll only feel the need to act once Barak and Arafat actually seal an agreement," Hamad says. Until then, they?re happy to watch the Palestinian leader...
...guns from homes. After their defeat in the nation?s capital, gun control activists are overjoyed to have succeeded in passing the new legislation in the largest state. "California often leads the way, showing where broader public opinion is also going," says Booth. And so the gun-restriction movement will now try to carry its California momentum into other states, with the aim of eventually targeting Washington again...
...have a new deity--the next Cisco. This once quiet company has become the very visible backbone to every communications network in the world. Cisco, led by John Chambers, dominates all the tough science behind the movement of information. When you think of voice, data, bandwidth, telephony and the Internet--all the buzz words behind today's hottest stocks--you invariably come back to Cisco, which is the go-to guy behind the equipment that makes this stuff work. Dot.com companies are loaded with Cisco's products. The company is held in awe by Silicon Valley and Wall Street...
DIED. JAMES FARMER, 79, courageous, booming-voiced Gandhian who along with Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and '60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could "cool off," Farmer replied, "We have been cooling off for 350 years...
...intentions of Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, with whom he held further White House talks Monday following last week?s intense bonding. But with a new season of peace dawning between Israel and the Palestinians, Israelis are bracing for the inevitable backlash of bombing by the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement. "It?s logical to expect new terror attacks, because the peace process involves Palestinians' accepting Israel?s existence, to which Hamas is resolutely opposed," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...