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...Perhaps we might say, after witnessing the killings of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Yitzhak Rabin, that such incidents occur only in more volatile areas of the world than our own country. But even in the United States, where our own citizens also turned to murder for political ends in Oklahoma City, we are not immune. The anger we felt at Americans who killed Americans gives us a hint of what Israelis striving for peace feel today...
Perhaps I overstate the case. To believe many of the learned heads who have already gone on the record about the Rabin execution, there are fringe elements in Israel as there are fringe elements in the United States. The Rabin assassination, on this logic, becomes something akin to the Oklahoma City bombing--a gruesome reminder that there are extremists out there somewhere who are willing to shed their compatriots' blood to drive home their own idiosyncratic political agendas...
DIED. MARY WICKES, 79, character actress; in Burbank, California. Hard to name but easy to recognize, Wickes was the tart-tongued accent to 50 years of pop culture: stage work like The Man Who Came to Dinner and Oklahoma, TV turns from I Love Lucy to M*A*S*H and more than 50 films, including classics like Now Voyager and recent hits like Little Women and Sister...
...frightening to consider that, so soon after the tragic bombing of the Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the demolition of the World Trade Center in New York, so many Americans have already forgotten how devastating and emotionally traumatic terrorism can be. Inviting Arafat to address members of the Harvard Community under the trumped-up title of "President of the Palestinian National Authority" is tantamount to making light of the deaths of Americans, Israelis and others who have died at the hands of the PLO in the not-too-distant past...
...American soldiers to Bosnia. The Senators who listened had plenty of questions for the President's emissaries. Some of the queries were pointed, others acerbic, a few downright hostile. One, however, stood out for the succinctness with which it cut to the heart of the matter. It came from Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe, who is known for making crisp and at times incendiary remarks (he once denounced the Environmental Protection Agency as a "gestapo bureaucracy"). "If we're going to have hundreds of young Americans dying over there," demanded Inhofe, glaring at Defense Secretary William Perry, "is this mission...