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...best rider in the world as he slips off, back to the chair lift. The Norwegian packs up his third Mount Baker trophy (a golden roll of duct tape) and prepares to head up to Vancouver, B.C., to consult on a snowboard video game. And then probably home to Oslo, or Jackson Hole, Wyo., or maybe back to Mount Baker. But not to Japan and the first snowboarding events in Olympic history. Haakonsen is boycotting Nagano...
...after years of terrorism, mutual distrust, riots and border closings, it seems the peace which was almost at hand with the signing of the Oslo Agreements is now an optimist's dream...
...until I took a trip to Israel with the express purpose of learning about the current political situation that I understood the complexity of the Oslo Agreements and had the opportunity to read the two inch thick document for myself...
...when Palestinians and Israelis no longer see themselves as enemies but as neighbors; when a hope for peace is not offered in the same breath as a call to arms; when building a house is seen as an act of life, not an act of war. The foundation of Oslo was an attempt to foster mutual understanding and trust. Thus far it seems to have caused only suspicion...
Rather than a reality check for Arafat and Netanyahu [WORLD, Sept. 15], TIME should consider one for itself. You say that "Netanyahu's hard line stands" for wanting Arafat to abide by the provisions of the Oslo accord, and that Arafat "has usually been the more movable party." Show me one tangible move. All I see are dead Israelis, decreased access for Jews to Jewish holy places, the trading of land for peace, and the call for Israel to allow 100,000 potential terrorists to enter its borders daily. Perhaps Mexico should insist on the return of lands stolen from...