Word: palestinian
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...review the pattern: a bomb explodes on a civilian bus, leaving dozens of people wounded and killed. The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority condemn the act. The occupied territories are then sealed off while the country recovers and the victims are mourned...
...negotiated peace is the only possible conclusion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis '48 told an audience of about 100 in a speech at Hillel last night...
Describing recent Israeli-Palestinian developments as astonishing, Lewis condemned backlashes against the Middle East peace process...
Charges of falsified counts, intimidation at the polls and missing ballot boxes have delayed final results of the Palestinian elections, which were intended to set a standard for democracy in the Arab world. P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat, in the race for President of the Palestinian Council, crushed challenger Samiha Khalil with 88% of the valid vote. Preliminary results showed his Fatah organization won about 50 of the 88 parliamentary seats...
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP: Although no one is contesting PLO Chief Yasser Arafat's landslide victory in the first Palestinian elections over the weekend, allegations of widespread cheating in the parliamentary voting are spreading, as charges of manipulated results, disappearing ballot boxes, and intimidation at the polls are being levelled against administrators of the elections. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "The cheating will be the big issue. The story is growing by the hour. In Hebron, ballot boxes were missing and then found. One candidate in Gaza was told she won, then told later she lost...