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...Security Council, with U.S. backing, had earlier called on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian towns and urged both sides to agree on a cease-fire. President Bush on Saturday demanded that Arafat do more to stop terrorism, but also urged the Israeli government to "make sure there's a path to peace." Both calls, right now, look like wishful thinking. Nobody had expected Ariel Sharon to embrace the Arab League's latest peace offer, and not only because it came the day after a suicide bomber had marked the start of Passover by killing 22 Israelis at a seder...
...recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
PERU Shining Path Redux Just three days before President George W. Bush was due to visit Lima, a car bomb packed with up to 60 kg of dynamite exploded outside the U.S. embassy, killing nine people and injuring 30. Immediate suspicions of responsibility concentrated on the Maoist rebel group Shining Path, which had been quiet for nearly a decade. Bush declared that "no two-bit terrorists" were going to make him put off his trip...
...home or the likes of financier George Soros. But they clearly worry him. To strengthen his position - and ensure he is not prosecuted when he leaves - he may need to change the constitution and give himself a third term, or find a successor who will protect him. Whichever path he chooses, a supportive Rada is vital. Few Ukrainians outside the ruling class seem to care much about the elections, though. Most are becoming alienated from the political process. They have other things to worry about, like making ends meet. In 1990, on the eve of independence, says Miroslav Popovich...
...even a new cease-fire can buy Sharon much respite from Israel's basic dilemma over the West Bank and Gaza. If a truce is concluded, it's simply Step 1 on the path prescribed by the Mitchell and Tenet plans back to negotiating a two-state solution with Arafat. And if it fails, it simply plunges Israelis - and Palestinians - ever deeper into the horrors of a present that cannot hold...