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...Farewell to Arms" reported on the announcement by the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) that it is formally ending its armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland [Aug. 8]. The story reminded me of 1993, when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo peace accords and shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We all applauded and thought that peace had finally come to the Middle East. We so wanted it to be true. But terrorists are con artists. Their promises are worthless. They are good at murdering innocents and then blaming the victims. Terrorists quit only when...
...Although he moved there at the time of the Oslo accords, when peace with the Palestinians seemed closer than ever, Avi never imagined that Dugit would be evacuated. Located so close to the Israeli border, these northern Gaza settlers were sure their villages would remain in Israeli hands. "It was Yitzhak Rabin (then Defense Minister) who gave the approval to establish Dugit," says Firouz. "He promised it would never be evacuated...
...press. He has been denounced by Britain's splenetic right-wing Member of Parliament, Enoch Powell, as a "crypto-imperialist" and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly Geldof s lively penchant for the vernacular would make for a salty acceptance speech in Oslo, but any wishful, wistful speculation about the award's being grabbed by a rocker should not steer clear of the main point. Rock music, the most formidable force in Western popular culture, found a focus and a conscience this year and saved a great many lives. Rock sang, for a while, in unison...
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is among the world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian...
...Munch by Himself" is to run in Oslo through Aug. 28, and London's Royal Academy of Arts gets its turn from Oct. 1-Dec. 11. Despite several arrests in the case, The Scream and Madonna are still missing, but their disappearance has only heightened the public's fascination with the enigmatic Expressionist's work. tel: (47-23) 49 35 00; www.munch.museum.no